Ladder 49

[MacGuffin]

Trailer

Release Date: October 8th, 2004 (wide)

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix (Jack), John Travolta (Chief Kennedy), Jacinda Barrett, Billy Burke, Kevin Chapman (Frank), Morris Chestnut (Tommy), Scott Cooper (Billy), Kevin Daniels, Balthazar Getty, Tim Guinee (Tony McMillan), Brooke Hamlin, Jay Hernandez (Keith Ellis), Robert Patrick.

Director: Jay Russell (My Dog Skip, Tuck Everlasting, End of the Line)

Screenwriter: Lewis Colick (October Sky, Domestic Disturbance, Ghosts of Mississippi, Judgment Night, Unlawful Entry)

Premise: Trapped in a fire that looks likely to kill him, a fireman (Phoenix) takes the opportunity to look back over his life, career and marriage, while he waits for his company, Ladder 49, to rescue him, if they can... (Travolta plays Phoenix's fire chief and mentor; Barrett plays his wife; Cooper plays the "grunge" rocker that his wife was dating before him; Hamlin plays Phoenix's daughter).

[NEON MERCURY]

i thouth backdraft and roxanne already solidified the 'fireman' genre?....?>...

[El Duderino]

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[Finn]

I saw this last night. Some of it was cheesy and John Travolta was really weak in a few scenes. But it was a very good movie overall.

[picolas]

But it was a very good movie overall.

how come?

[El Duderino]

i disagree......i thought it was so awful that i left

[NEON MERCURY]

I saw this last night. Some of it was cheesy and John Travolta was really weak in a few scenes. But it was a very good movie overall.

 how could it be cheesy? from the trailers and tv spots i couldnt tell.

and travolta was weak?!? thats surprising considering how great hes been in his past couple of films..

[Ghostboy]

Ah, Neon rules.

[Thrindle]

i disagree......i thought it was so awful that i left

I went and had a smoke break.  Waste of my fucking time.  

LONG WINDED AND PLOTLESS.

also... the sadness did not make the plotlessness forgivable.

[Finn]

I thought what made the movie good was how they executed the "life of a fireman" idea. Some of it was cheesy with the humor although I did chuckle a few times. I also think the characters were too cardboard and needed to be more solid and realistic. But I thought most of the performances were good and I did care about what happens to these characters at the end.

[pete]

so you hated the movie.

[Pozer]

I'm just glad some one finally made a movie about firefighters. Same with that other animated underwater fish tale that opened this weekend.

It's about time we get some mainstream originality up in here.

[hedwig]

someone told me this movie was too Christian.

what the fuck is that supposed to mean!?

[cine]

someone told me this movie was too Christian.

what the fuck is that supposed to mean!?

Jesus puts out the fires for them.  

[Weak2ndAct]

This is one of those movies so plain, so pedestrian, so Hollywood in the worst possible way, that I will go out of my way to NOT see it, but will eventually be forced to for two reasons: to kill boredom on an airplane, or to shut out family members at a uncomfortable get together.