History Film / LifeOnTheLine

* OverprotectiveDad: Overprotective uncle actually. Beau does not want Bailey dating Duncan, believing that he will ruin his niece’s plans of going to college and making something out of herself.

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 [[spoiler: 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.

Not surprisingly, it was given a 0% on Website 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.

->''“Life is a series of collected moments and experiences that we gather over the course of time.''

->''Our main mission is to protect the grid, even if one of us meets our maker. We are linemen, it is what we do, the credo we chant, you are your brother’s keeper.”''

''Film/LifeOnTheLine'' is a 2015 direct-to-video disaster film directed [[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b15efa4a_57c2_48ff_ace8_d5316cc23b13.jpeg]]
[[caption-width-right:260: I am my brother’s keeper]] by directed by David Hackl, written by Primo Brown, Marvin Peart and Peter I. Horton, and staring Creator/JohnTravolta, Creator/KateBosworth, Creator/DevonSawa, Gil Bellows, Creator/JulieBenz, Ryan Robbins and Creator/SharonStone. 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.

[[NeverTrustATrailer At least that’s what the trailer promised.]]

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.

[[caption-width-right:260: I am my brother’s keeper]] by directed by David Hackl, written by Primo Brown, Marvin Peart and Peter I. Horton, and staring Creator/JohnTravolta, Creator/KateBosworth, Devon Sawa, Gil Bellows, Creator/JulieBenz, Ryan Robbins and Creator/SharonStone. 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.

* ParentalSubstitute: Beau is Bailey’s uncle but has raised her since the death of her parents when she was a little girl.
* YourCheatingHeart: The film hints that Carline is cheating on Eugene.

* Nephewism: more like niece-ism. Beau adopts his niece after her parents were killed and raises her like his own daughter.

Not surprisingly, it was given a 0% on the Tomatometer and a 35% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes 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.

* DrivenToSuicide: Eugene’s PTSD from the Iraqi War drive him to commit suicide. [[spoiler: Luckily, he doesn’t go through with it.]]
* FamilyVersusCareer: Go to college, start a career, and get away from the world of lineman or rekindle your relationship with your now-li mean boyfriend and carry his child? Bailey chooses the latter despite Beau wanting her to choose the former.

* ParentalSubstitute: Beau is Bailey’s uncle but has raised her since the death of her parents when she was a little girl.

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 [[spoiler: 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.

Not surprisingly, it was given a 0% on the Tomatometer and a 35% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes with critics deriding its cliche-ridden plot and failure to show how dangerous a lineman’s job really is.

''Film/LifeOnTheLine'' 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 Creator/JohnTravolta, Creator/KateBosworth, Devon Sawa, Gil Bellows, Creator/JulieBenz, Ryan Robbins and Creator/SharonStone. 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. https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a2138983_a23b_4ed1_aeef_f248b50e6962.jpeg

''Film/LifeOnTheLine'' 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 Creator/JohnTravolta, Creator/KateBosworth, Devon Sawa, Gil Bellows, Creator/JulieBenz, Ryan Robbins and Creator/SharonStone. 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.

''Film/LifeOnTheLine'' 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 Creator/JohnTravolta, Creator/KateBosworth, Devon Sawa, Gil Bellows, Julie Benz, Ryan Robbins and Sharon Stone. It tells the story of

The film opens up with lineman Duncan (Devon Sawa) giving an interview and precedes to tell the events of the film, starting several years before the main story takes place.

* ParentalSubsitute: Beau is Bailey’s uncle but has raised her since the death of her parents when she was a little girl.

''Film/LifeOnTheLine'' 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 Creator/JohnTravolta, Kate Bosworth, Devon Sawa, Gil Bellows, Julie Benz, Ryan Robbins and Sharon Stone.