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Catch a Fire (2006)

★ 6.7PG-1398 minDirector: Phillip Noyce

2006 film

Catch a Fire is a 2006 biographical thriller film about activists against apartheid in South Africa. The film was directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Shawn Slovo. Slovo's father, Joe Slovo, and mother Ruth First, leaders of the South African Communist Party and activists in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, appear as characters in the film, while her sister, Robyn Slovo, is one of the film's producers and also plays their mother Ruth First. Catch a Fire was filmed on location in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique.

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What is Catch a Fire about?
Catch a Fire (2006) — A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick i
Is Catch a Fire based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Catch a Fire scary?
Content rating: PG-13. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.
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