Kristin Scott is wrongfully blamed for the death of her father just prior to his retirement as a Captain with the fire department. Along with being the only female firefighter on her squad,...
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Brooke Burns | ... | Kristin Scott | |
| Rick Ravanello | ... | Ray Kulhanek | |
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Winston Rekert | ... | Hank |
| Wanda Cannon | ... | Barbara | |
| Erin Karpluk | ... | Chelsea | |
| Robert Moloney | ... | Dan | |
| William MacDonald | ... | Trip Crandall | |
| Aaron Pearl | ... | Sean Milligan | |
| Rex Linn | ... | Chief Bill Berry | |
| Erika-Shaye Gair | ... | Meredith | |
| Michael Adamthwaite | ... | Donahue | |
| Nels Lennarson | ... | Douglas | |
| Pascale Hutton | ... | Taryn | |
| Matthew Kevin Anderson | ... | Josh (as Matt Anderson) | |
| Brent Stait | ... | Crawford | |
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Kristin Scott is wrongfully blamed for the death of her father just prior to his retirement as a Captain with the fire department. Along with being the only female firefighter on her squad, this puts her at odds with the other members of her team and she resigns. To prove herself she tackles the grueling training of smoke jumping. This is a rugged type of firefighter who jumps out of airplanes directly into the flames. Written by DS
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firefighter | female protagonist | false accusation | death of father |Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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27 September 2008 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Predictable plot but not bad: family drama in which two highly competitive sisters take different routes to their parents' attention. One is feminine and soft, the other a lean, mean, fighting machine (literally).
All the family infighting, and the fighter daughter's struggles to earn the respect of her fellow firefighters, rang mostly true if not breaking any new ground, although I did not find that character's physiology or physicality particularly convincing even when she was supposedly staggering along under huge loads during training. Her trainer's romantic overtures were predictable but not overdone.
Where the movie really fell apart was once the wildfire started. Not much passed the common sense smell test even if you know as little about the profession as I do. For our heroine to be the movie's biggest action hero required that a whole lot of characters with far greater expertise do incredibly stupid and unprofessional things to take themselves out of the running.
It might be the fault of the script focusing on triteness or a director addicted to dramatic overkill instead of coaxing the human truths out of the actors, but basically this was a potentially good story that overshot too many marks.