Fireheart

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Fireheart
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Directed by
  • Theodore Ty
  • Laurent Zeitoun
Written by
  • Laurent Zeitoun
  • Jennica Harper
  • Daphne Ballon
Story by
  • Laurent Zeitoun
  • Jennica Harper
  • Lisa Hunter
Produced by
  • Laurent Zeitoun
  • Andre Rouleau
  • Valerie D'Auteuil
  • Yann Zenou
Starring
CinematographyJericca Cleland
Edited byRobert Yates
Music by Chris Egan
Production
companies
Distributed by Entertainment One
Release dates
  • 2 February 2022 (2022-02-02)(France)
  • 13 July 2022 (2022-07-13)(Canada)
Running time
92 minutes
Countries
  • Canada
  • France
LanguageEnglish
Budget$40 million
Box office$5.8 million [1]

Fireheart is a 2022 animated adventure comedy film directed by Theodore Ty and Lauren Zeitoun and written by Zeitoun, Jennica Harper, and Daphne Ballon from a story by Zeitoun, Harper, and Lisa Hunter. It is the second film and final Independent film produced by L'Atelier Animation after Ballerina before Cinesite acquired L'Atelier. [2] It features the voices of Olivia Cooke, Kenneth Branagh, Laurie Holden, and William Shatner. The plot follows a 16-year-old who dreams to become the world's first female firefighter.

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Plot

In 1930s New York, Georgia Nolan is a 16-year-old who hopes to become the world's first female firefighter despite being told as a child by her ex-firefighter father Shawn that women are not allowed to. Shawn is requested by the mayor to come out of retirement to head up a young team of firefighters to combat a serial arsonist, who uses purple gas to hypnotize others and has resulted in the disappearances of other firefighters. Wishing to help, Georgia disguises herself as a man named Joe and joins the team.

While in disguise "Joe" meets the other firemen: Jin, a Chinese-American who loves to drive faster than a cheetah but suffers from Narcolepsy, and Ricardo, a Spanish-American who got muscle from helping his father work at the steel mill but his true passion is for chemistry, so he calculates the best and safest way for the team to put the fires out.

The last concert hall standing has a wall of policemen surrounding it but an African American opera diva named Laura Devine keeps breaking in to rehearse her upcoming musical and when asked to leave she backtalks Shawn by saying she grew up hearing no all the time in the Jim crow south "no don't eat off the good plates" "no don't kiss the baby" "no you must use the outhouse like the other staff" so she saved every penny to come to New York and when the lead singer "fell" off the stage she hijacked the show and got discovered so she promptly refuses to leave so she can practice where her assistant Pauline promptly fails tangling her from a rope and drops her right into a full body cast.

"Joe" talks with Pauline and seeing her down about losing another job unmasks herself and tells Pauline to go after her dreams which was the worst thing to do since it revealed that she was an aspiring chemist who wanted to make special effects but kept getting rejection letters so she planned her revenge.

In what might be their final hours, "Joe" tells her father everything and so does he by saying he couldn't save a couple from a fire 16 years ago he couldn't break through a wall to get both of them out so instead they handed their newborn daughter and he promised to always look after her and keep her safe but if she became a firefighter he couldn't keep his promise. She tells her dad that promise or not she wants to fight fires and together, they stop Pauline. She openly joins the station as a volunteer firefighter as the end credits show that female firefighters weren’t paid until 1982.

Cast

Release

The film was released in the United States by Hulu in February 2022 exclusively on the service of the same name, and in Europe by Entertainment One throughout the rest of the year. [3] The same year, the film was released as a Sky Cinema original by Sky on May 27 in the UK.[ citation needed ]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 60% of four reviews are positive. [4] The film grossed $3.7 million at the box office. [1]

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