

"'Fireproof' picks up seven years into a marriage headed for divorce. "Most movies are about relationships that lead to marriage," Michael Catt, of Sherwood Pictures said.

Hitting on pain points common to married life-from indifference to insults to emotional affairs and internet porn-the story opens with a couple's disintegration. "Fireproof" mirrors the problems of many marriages, in this case through a firefighter whose high-stress job spills into his home life.

adults divorce at least once and given the abundance of poor marriages, many couples skip it outright. Census Bureau and marriage organizations vary on the stats but agree that nearly half of all weddings lead to divorce-with rates highest in the Bible belt. Influencers such as marriage expert Gary Smalley and Bubba Cathy of Chick-fil-A are also working to spread the word. National groups such as Focus on the Family, Outreach, FamilyLife, The Marriage CoMission, America's Family Coaches, AMFM, Marriage Alive Communications, and MarriageToday endorse the movie and are urging their constituencies to see it. Already the movie is uniting marriage advocates from across the U.S. ALBANY, Ga., Ma" Fireproof," the new action/relationship film from the creators of "Facing the Giants" and "Flywheel," releases this September from Sherwood Pictures and Provident Films.
