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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Life On The Line is a 2015 direct-to-video disaster film directed by directed by David Hackl, written by Primo Brown, Marvin Peart and Peter I. Horton, and staring John Travolta, Kate Bosworth, Devon Sawa, Gil Bellows, Julie Benz, Ryan Robbins and Sharon Stone. It premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival on November 5, 2015 and was released on November 18, 2016, by Lionsgate Premiere. It tells the story of a group of Texan linemen who brave a severe storm to fix the electrical grid to bring back power to the county.At least that’s what the trailer promised.Instead the storm only arrives during the climax. The rest of the film is about Bailey Ginning (Kate Bosworth) struggling with her relationship with Duncan (Devon Sawa) while dealing with her pregnancy and fending off her ex-boyfriend Ron (Matt Bellefleur), Beau Gunner (John Travolta) struggling to let go of his niece Bailey whom he raised since the death of her parents - his brother and sister-in-law - whom the former’s death he blames himself for, Duncan starting a job as a lineman much to the anger of his alcoholic mother who was left destitute after her husband, a lineman, was killed and the displeasure of his new boss Beau who resents him for dating his niece, Carline (Julie Benz) befriending Bailey and suffering from marriage problems as a result of her husband Eugene’s PTSD from Iraq, and Eugene (Ryan Robbins) himself, a vet and lineman, suffering from flashbacks and suicidal tendencies and slowly suspecting his wife’s infidelity. All of these events make up the bulk of the film as it slowly builds up to the storm.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Not surprisingly, it was given a 0% on the Tomatometer and a metascore of 24 on Metacritic with critics deriding its cliche-ridden plot and failure to show how dangerous a lineman’s job really is.This film provides examples of:
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