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Fireproof is a 2008 film produced by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Sherwood Pictures and starring Kirk Cameron as Caleb Holt, a fireman whose marriage to his wife Catherine is in trouble, but overcomes his problems by a combination of the "The Love Dare", a 40-day program and God.
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Anonymous Benefactor
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Anonymous Benefactor: Played with. Caleb didn't give the money to buy the medical equipment with any stipulation of secrecy, but Catherine's assumption that it was Dr. Keller means that she doesn't even check with the company to see who gave the money before running off to show her gratitude.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: Caleb's father tells Caleb that he needs to "fireproof" his marriage as an allusion to how a fireproof house can still experience a fire, but is more likely to survive intact.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: Caleb's savings for his boat, mentioned during his first argument scene with Catherine, are later used to buy his mother-in-law's home medical equipment.
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Break the Haughty
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Break the Haughty: To show the Small Name, Big Ego of the fire department he's not as cool as he thinks he is, Caleb has a Hot Sauce Drinking contest with him. Caleb replaced the hot sauce in his with tomato juice.
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Hollywood Fire
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Hollywood Fire: Largely averted. Not that much of the house is on fire and it clearly shows the amount of smoke involved. Still, the fact that the section underneath the house is completely intact except for dramatic falling rubble...
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Character Development
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Caleb, at first. He starts off being rude and aggressive towards his wife. He’s also disrespectful to his mother until the end when he learns that his father was the one who wanted a divorce and his mother was the one who worked to salvage her marriage.
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Delayed Reaction
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Delayed Reaction: Caleb confessing that he drank tomato juice while Wayne drank hot sauce.
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Sassy Black Woman
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Sassy Black Woman: A duo of them unintentionally undermine Caleb's attempts to win back his wife by regaling her with tales of friends of theirs who had the same tactics used on them to soften them up for the divorce.
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Father, I Want to Marry My Brother
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Father, I Want to Marry My Brother: Done very sweetly by the daughter in the opening of the film.
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The Internet Is for Porn
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The Internet Is for Porn: Caleb becomes so addicted to internet porn that when he takes on The Love Dare to get back his wife, one of the things he does is take his computer outside and trash it with a baseball bat.
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Railroad Tracks of Doom
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Railroad Tracks of Doom: Unlike Hollywood Fire, this one is played straight.
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The Unfair Sex
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The Unfair Sex: Caleb and Catherine are both shown to have problems that have contributed to the failure of their marriage, but Caleb is the only one of them who has to work to repair their relationship despite Catherine's every attempt to break things off.
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The two sassy black women that end up inadvertently undermining Caleb's efforts to win Catherine back.
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Kissing Discretion Shot
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Kissing Discretion Shot: An odd one. Kirk Cameron refuses to kiss any woman but his wife, so for the scene where Caleb and Catherine kiss, Kirk's wife was substituted for the regular actress and the lighting was turned down to make it more difficult to tell the difference.
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Cutting the Electronic Leash
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Cutting the Electronic Leash: In this case, throwing the computer out the door and beating it with a baseball bat. It needed to be done.
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The Moral Substitute
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The Moral Substitute: Claimed by critics to be the reason why the movie was such a success despite their panning.
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Tomato Surprise
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Tomato Surprise: When Caleb first confides to his father that Catherine wants to leave him, Dad Holt challenges him to fulfill the conditions of "The Love Dare," pointing out that it aided greatly in his own marriage to Caleb's mother when they had hit a rough patch. Near the end, we learn that it was Dad Holt who had wanted to leave Mom Holt and not the other way around as Caleb had initially assumed; this prompts Caleb to go and apologize to his mother for having been a Jerkass to her throughout the movie.
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What the Hell, Hero?: At the beginning, Terrell scolds Eric for leaving him in a dangerous spot from the fire they arrived from. Caleb even agrees he has the right to be upset at Eric.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Chekhov's Gunman: Caleb's mother, who he believes was the person who requested a divorce from his father, turns out to be the one who first gave his father the "Love Dare" book that saved their marriage, and which helps to save Caleb's as well.
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Hilarious Outtakes
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Hilarious Outtakes: It's a mixture of people forgetting lines, goofs onstage, and a lot of pranks that got filmed.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: Arguably, the passersby who help move the wrecked car off of the train tracks along with the firemen.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Caleb, at first. He starts off being rude and aggressive towards his wife. He’s also disrespectful to his mother until the end when he learns that his father was the one who wanted a divorce and his mother was the one who worked to salvage her marriage. Catherine can come across this way just as badly as, if not worse than, Caleb... in her own way.
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Computer Equals Monitor
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Computer Equals Monitor: Looks to be the case when Caleb goes after the monitor with a baseball bat in order to combat his internet pornography addiction. He quickly follows it up with smashing up the tower, too. (Well, the case at least. The one-shot we get of the computer in the trash looks like most of the hardware is still intact).
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Product Placement
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Product Placement: Yes, they sell the book "The Love Dare". And Chick-fil-A, too!
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Caleb has to actually work and follow the instructions in "The Love Dare" in order to achieve this.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: Caleb giving up something, then taking it out into the yard to whale on it with a baseball bat, then getting noticed by his elderly neighbors. He gives a cheerful greeting, and the neighbor gives a suspicious ". . . Caleb."
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