Fireproof

This is just going to be a quick post to make a recommendation - if you are married or ever want to be married, I encourage you to watch the movie Fireproof. My parents gave it to us last year (sorry for the delay Mom and Pop) and we watched it the other night. It was wonderful.

Disclaimer - There are a few hokey (is that even a word) parts as many of the actors are volunteers from the Sherwood Baptist Church in Georgia where the two brothers who co-wrote and co-produced the film are the associate pastors. However, that in no way detracts from the central message(s) of the movie which are excellent or the movie overall. These same pastors also created Facing the Giants, also highly recommended by moi.

Interesting Side Note - at the end when Kirk Cameron is kissing his on scene wife, it is really his real wife:

Actor Kirk Cameron, the squeaky-clean guy from television’s “Growing Pains”, is in a new movie called “Fireproof”. Kirk Cameron talks about romance scenes in movies, and how he will only kiss his wife, Chelsea Noble.

Kirk Cameron’s new movie, “Fireproof,” called for him to kiss the actress playing his wife. But this was a huge problem, as Kirk will not kiss any woman, not his wife.

“I have a commitment not to kiss any other woman,” the former child star of “Growing Pains” told Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford Monday on TODAY in New York.

So to get around this problem, they dressed his wife, actress Chelsea Noble, to look like the female lead character and shot the scene in silhouette.

“So when I’m kissing my wife, we’re actually husband and wife honoring marriage behind the scenes,” Cameron said as Gifford and Kotb melted from the romanticism of the moment.

Kirk Cameron became a Christian at the age of 17 while on the show “Growing Pains”, as character Mike Seaver. Chelsea Noble was his co-star and his girlfriend on the show.

The couple fell in love in real life and married in 1991, when Cameron was 20 and Noble was 26. Today the couple have six children ranging in age from 5 to 12, including four who were adopted.