Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

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Last modified: Dec. 15, 2012

Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue Amer...

Release Date: Friday, October 5, 2012 Limited

Director: Matthew Heineman • Susan Froemke

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3 / 5

39% WILL SEE 61% WON'T SEE

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Plot

What's the story about?

Plot: Tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can we save our badly broken healthcare system? Director/Producers Matthew Heineman (OUR TIME) and award-winning Susan Froemke (WAGNER'S DREAM, LALEE'S KIN: THE LEGACY OF COTTON) interweave dramatic personal arcs of patients and physicians with the stories of leaders battling to transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and even the U.S. military. ESCAPE FIRE is about finding a way out of our current crisis. It's a primer on how to save the health of a nation.

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Crew Behind the Film

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The film's director Matthew Heineman last directed The Boy from Medellín and A Private War.

Director: Matthew Heineman
Susan Froemke
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Studio: Roadside Attractions
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Production Details

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Key Facts

Sundance Film Festival 2012 (Official Selection); Silverdocs 2012 (WINNER - Silverdocs React to Film Social Issue Award); Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2012 (WINNER - Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights); Newport Beach Film Festival 2012 (WINNER - Outstanding Achievement In Directing and Outstanding Achievement In Documentary Filmmaking)

Production Updates for Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare

Dec 2004

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Language: English

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Release Dates

When was the film released?

Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare was released in limited movie theaters on Friday, October 5, 2012. There were 17 other movies released on the same date, including Frankenweenie, Taken 2 and The Paperboy. As a limited release, Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare was shown in select movie theaters in major markets.

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2012-10-05 Limited

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2013-02-26 DVD

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