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Life on the Line
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Aiming to shine a light on overlooked heroes of the modern age, the film follows a crew of men doing the high-wire work of fixing the electrical grid who are hit by a sudden deadly storm.
Aiming to shine a light on overlooked heroes of the modern age, the film follows a crew of men doing the high-wire work of fixing the electrical grid who are hit by a sudden deadly storm.
Actors:
Jim Shield,
Brenda Matthews,
Louis Ferreira,
Fraser Corbett,
Curtis Caravaggio,
Sidney Grigg,
Stuart Stone
Jim Shield
Brenda Matthews
Louis Ferreira
20 February 1966, Terceira, Açores, Portugal
Fraser Corbett
Curtis Caravaggio
Sidney Grigg
Stuart Stone
17 November 1980, Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
Genre:
Action
Director:
David Hackl
David Hackl
Country:
United States
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November 14, 2016
For a film about such a singular profession, Life on the Line offers surprisingly little insight into linemen's day-to-day labor.
November 18, 2016
A listless cast and a crushingly flat script fail to illuminate the lives of high-wire electrical workers in Life on the Line, which instead resorts to tired story beats and a false sense of self-righteousness.
November 17, 2016
A terrible movie about the workers who keep the electrical grid functioning.
November 17, 2016
This is the kind of salt-of-the-earth story that American filmmakers don't bother with much anymore - although frankly, there's not much here to convince anyone they should.
January 19, 2017
The filmmakers behind this earnest, heartfelt drama truly want to honor the brave men who do this job, but the movie is packed with cliches and doesn't really grasp the details of hard work.
November 18, 2016
John Travolta dodges downed power lines, but can't escape the clichés.
November 18, 2016
TV movie fare at best.
November 17, 2016
"Life on the Line" is supposed to be a moving story about men working electrical lines. Viewers, however, might require a high-voltage shock just to endure it.
November 17, 2016
The real men and women who work on the country's power grids deserve better than a periodically ludicrous, mostly tedious study of honor and teamwork.
November 18, 2016
This is one of those "based on true events" movies that give you the distinct feeling that the true events deserved better.
November 17, 2016
The country songs that play over the credits offer more arresting detail about life on the line than the film manages in 100 minutes.