Next week weâve decided to keep rolling with the didactic melodrama with the granddaddy of Lifetimeâs awful TV movies, 1985âs The Rape of Richard Beck. With all their problems buried and glossed over rather than dealt with, Caleb and Catherine renew their vows and live âhappily after everâ â at least until their inevitable meltdown. 43 days and a contrived conversion later, Caleb realizes that the secret for men to make marriage last is abandoning all of your passions and hobbies for an obsessive and myopic focus on your wife, who you must always cater and capitulate to. When their marriage hits a wall, Caleb decides to try to save it by forgoing counseling and communication in favor of some folksy advice from his dad based loosely on the Bible. Caleb is a firefighter with anger issues who loves boats and porn (possibly together) Catherine is a hospital worker with a taste for senseless materialism and hick doctors. This week weâre tackling 2008âs Fireproof, an indie morality tale that shows that you donât have to have good acting, chemistry or a compelling romance to clean up at the box office â as long as you have a religious âmessageâ to preach to the choir. Is YOUR marriage fireproof? We hope not, because weâd hate for anyone to have a relationship as dysfunctional and antagonistic as Kirk Cameron and Erin Bethea have in this Christian melodrama. B Movie Breakdown - Episode 20: Fireproof
