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Hi <<First Name>>,

I really enjoy taking photographs;for me it’s a quest to capture one moment in time. Sometimes I want the vast expanse of the ocean, or a mountain range that stretches to the horizon. At other times, it's the beauty of a single perfect flower.

Sometimes you’re trying to capture small intimate moments. What was it like the first time your child smiled? Or took their first steps? Or said “Mommy” and “Daddy?”

Movies offer us a chance to look at life through someone else's lens. We may see ourselves in the characters or the plot of the story. I talked with Stephen Kendrick (writer and producer of Fireproof) this week, and he’s amazed by the stories pouring in from couples who feel they’re watching their own story play out in the movie. It is changing lives and strengthening marriages around the country.

If you haven’t seen Fireproof, now’s your chance. The DVD has just become available and is loaded with lots of fun extras. You can order it today, along with the new Legacy Edition of the Love Dare. Join thousands of couples improving their marriages with the help of these great tools.
 
From the screening room,

Angela Walker
ChristianMovieNews.com

Fireproof your relationship with a Fireproof DVD and his & hers Love Dare books.

Fireproof DVD  (Special Edition Collector's copy)

Never leave your partner behind!

Capt. Caleb Holt lives by the old firefighter's adage: Never leave your partner behind. Inside burning buildings, it's his natural instinct. In the cooling embers of his marriage, it's another story.

The Love Dare Book (2 copies)

The Love Dare, as featured in the new movie Fireproof (starring Kirk Cameron), is a 40-day guided devotional experience that will lead your heart back to truly loving your spouse while learning more about the design, nature, and source of true love.

Half of the Kendrick brothers duo, Stephen is co-writer and producer, as well as promoter extraordinaire for Sherwood Pictures (creators of Flywheel, Facing the Giants, and Fireproof). On October 13, 2008, Stephen and his wife welcomed their fourth child (the third son), John Christian Kendrick, into the family. According to Stephen, he’s doing great, they love having him in the family, and have decided to keep him.

Can you describe the past couple of years? You came right off the success of Facing the Giants into production for Fireproof. That can’t be easy.

Stephen:    It was even more intense than Facing the Giants. The whole journey of Fireproof has been a whirlwind for about a year and a half. We’ve been under deadlines constantly. We made this movie very quickly. We wrote it and...

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from Christian Retailing

Not Easily Broken, a faith-based drama based on a 2006 FaithWords novel by pastor T.D. Jakes, debuted at No. 9 this past weekend. It was part of a record-setting Martin Luther King, Jr., weekend, and what could be the largest January for the box office.

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It’s a daring move to throw the audience right into the thick of marital strife.  Conventional wisdom says that we need to learn a thing or two about characters first and grow to like them—otherwise, we might learn to hate one of them, or care very little about what happens to either.  It’s a credit to both Kendrick’s script and direction—and to very appealing performances by Kirk Cameron and newcomer Erin Bethea—that both Caleb and Catherine come off as redeemable and appealing, even while they’re lost. 

Fireproof possesses a rare realism in a genre that usually depends on clichés and a very predictable arc toward mutual attraction.  Oddly, very little in Fireproof is predictable or programmatic, even though we know full well where this story must be headed.  At times, in spite of ourselves—and perhaps because of ourselves—we feel that this marriage is every bit as precarious as many we have known.

It’s worth pointing out that Fireproof isn’t all moving dramatics and sound spiritual lessons—as if that weren’t recommendation enough.  The film also offers genuinely gripping action sequences, and trademark Kendrick comic relief that will evoke audible guffaws.

DVD Extras:
Included are the usual making-of documentary and deleted scenes (all of which are, atypically, quite good); but the outtakes and pranks sequences are not to be missed, and the “Fireproof in 60 Seconds” spoof is truly hysterical—as is the psuedo-doc “Wayne on Wayne.”