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* WhatTheHellHero: At the begin-ning, 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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* WhatTheHellHero: At the begin-ning, 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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* WhatTheHellHero: At the begin-ning, 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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* AdultFear: One of the scenes of Caleb on the job. A little girl trapped in a house on fire while her parents are outside. They had thought she was at a friend's.
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* ComputerEqualsMonitor: 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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* ComputerEqualsMonitor: 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 one-shot we get of the computer in the trash looks like most of the hardware is still intact).



* ProductPlacement: Yes, they sell the book of "The Love Dare". And Chick-fil-A, too!

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* ProductPlacement: Yes, they sell the book of "The Love Dare". And Chick-fil-A, too!
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* BreakTheHaughty: To show the SmallNameBigEgo of the fire department he's not as cool as he thinks he is, Caleb has a hot sauce drinking contest with him. [[spoiler:Caleb replaced the hot sauce in his with tomato juice.]]

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* BreakTheHaughty: To show the SmallNameBigEgo of the fire department he's not as cool as he thinks he is, Caleb has a hot sauce drinking HotSauceDrinking contest with him. [[spoiler:Caleb replaced the hot sauce in his with tomato juice.]]
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* YourCheatingHeart: Catherine and Dr. Keller flirt with each other despite Catherine being married to Caleb. It's later revealed that Dr. Keller is himself married.
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** Caleb, [[CharacterDevelopment at first]].

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** Caleb, [[CharacterDevelopment at first]]. He starts off being rude and aggressive towards his wife. He’s also disrespectful to his mother until the end when [[spoiler: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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* BlackBestFriend: Caleb and Catherine both have them.

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* TheUnfairSex: While Caleb was kind of a {{Jerkass}} and had problems, both personal and in the marriage, he's shown as the ''only'' one who had to fight for the marriage. It didn't show Catherine responsible or commissioned for such things, despite that clearly she was equally wrong in many of her arguments and, if anything, slowly changing for the ''worse''.
** Caleb's watching internet porn is treated as a huge problem worthy of a cold dismissal of all his efforts to save and improve their marriage all the way up until he takes out his entire life savings to get her mother a wheelchair, but Catherine's overt dalliance in flirting with a co-worker (not to mention getting closer to said co-worker when she automatically assumes that he, and not ''her own damn husband who's been kissing her ass for over 40 days straight and even smashed his computer for her sake'', was the one who made that $24K payment) warrants no such consternation. Combines with a FamilyUnfriendlyAesop that it's your duty to try to save your marriage, no matter how determined your spouse seems to wreck it, especially when you add in the parents' marriage, in addition to the likely unintended FamilyUnfriendlyAesop that puts all the blame for marriage problems on the man and never any on the woman.
** He does have a lot of free time, but he also has a job (firefighting) where he is on call 24/7 and risks his life on a daily basis (the train scene comes to mind). She has long hours (nurse), but essentially doesn't risk anything if people die on the job. During their early argument, he even lampshades some other issues. He points out that it was her choice to take the job, and then somehow she compares ''buying groceries'' and ''helping her parents'' (usually pointed out to show how virtuous she is) to having to pay for the house, two cars, and save up for a boat. She has monetary "needs", that he is quick to point out are actually [[StrawmanHasAPoint preferences]].

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* TheUnfairSex: While Caleb was kind of a {{Jerkass}} and had problems, Catherine are both personal and in shown to have problems that have contributed to the failure of their marriage, he's shown as but Caleb is the ''only'' only one of them who had has to fight for the marriage. It didn't show Catherine responsible or commissioned for such things, work to repair their relationship despite that clearly she was equally wrong in many of her arguments and, if anything, slowly changing for the ''worse''.
** Caleb's watching internet porn is treated as a huge problem worthy of a cold dismissal of all his efforts to save and improve their marriage all the way up until he takes out his entire life savings to get her mother a wheelchair, but
Catherine's overt dalliance in flirting with a co-worker (not every attempt to mention getting closer to said co-worker when she automatically assumes that he, and not ''her own damn husband who's been kissing her ass for over 40 days straight and even smashed his computer for her sake'', was the one who made that $24K payment) warrants no such consternation. Combines with a FamilyUnfriendlyAesop that it's your duty to try to save your marriage, no matter how determined your spouse seems to wreck it, especially when you add in the parents' marriage, in addition to the likely unintended FamilyUnfriendlyAesop that puts all the blame for marriage problems on the man and never any on the woman.
** He does have a lot of free time, but he also has a job (firefighting) where he is on call 24/7 and risks his life on a daily basis (the train scene comes to mind). She has long hours (nurse), but essentially doesn't risk anything if people die on the job. During their early argument, he even lampshades some other issues. He points out that it was her choice to take the job, and then somehow she compares ''buying groceries'' and ''helping her parents'' (usually pointed out to show how virtuous she is) to having to pay for the house, two cars, and save up for a boat. She has monetary "needs", that he is quick to point out are actually [[StrawmanHasAPoint preferences]].
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* YourCheatingHeart: Catherine and Dr. Keller flirt with each other despite Catherine being married to Caleb. It's later revealed that Dr. Keller is himself married.
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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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''Fireproof'' is a 2008 film produced by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Sherwood Pictures and starring Kirk Cameron Creator/KirkCameron 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.


* BigDamnHeroes: Arguably, the passersby who [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome help move the wrecked car off of the train tracks]] along with the firemen.

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* BigDamnHeroes: Arguably, the passersby who [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome help move the wrecked car off of the train tracks]] tracks along with the firemen.



* TomatoSurprise: 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. [[spoiler: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 [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming apologize]] to his mother for having been a JerkAss to her throughout the movie.]]

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* TomatoSurprise: 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. [[spoiler: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 [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming apologize]] apologize to his mother for having been a JerkAss to her throughout the movie.]]

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