Fireheart is a 2022 computer-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 acquires L'Atelier. 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.
Plot
Set in New York in 1930, the film centers on Georgia Nolan, a 16-year-old girl 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 of New York 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 there's jin a Chinese American who loves to drive faster than a cheetah but suffers from Narcolepsy that's triggered if he gets too excited or too worried he'll fall right asleep.
there's Ricardo a Spanish American who got muscle from helping his father work at the steel mill but his true passion is science more specially chemistry 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 captain 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 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 loosing another job unmasks herself and tells Pauline to go after her dreams which was the worst thing to do since its 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 thru a wall to get both of them out so instead they handed their newborn daughter threw 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 and she openly joins the station
Cast
Olivia Cooke as Georgia Nolan
Maya Misaljevic as Young Georgia Nolan
William Shatner as Jimmy Murray, the mayor of New York
Laurie Holden as Pauline
Kenneth Branagh as Shawn Nolan, Georgia's father
Ryan Garcia as Ricardo
Wilex Ly as Jin
Mara Junot as Laura Divine
Scott Humphrey as Captain Neil
Shoshana Sperling as the vocal effects of Ember, Georgia Nolan's Dalmatian. Mark Edwards as Pickle Vendor
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. It was then released as a Sky Cinema original by Sky on May 27, 2022, in the UK.
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 60% of four reviews are positive. The film grossed $3.7 million at the box office.