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'14 Hours' is a 2005 medical emergency docudrama produced for the TNT Network and starring JoBeth Williams, Kris Kristofferson and Ricky Schroder. The film was set in Houston, Texas and filmed in Vancouver, Canada. Based on true-life events surrounding Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, the film was released internationally on DVD by Paramount Pictures.[http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2004/11/05/jobeth-williams-and-rick-schroder-on-call-for-tnt-original-hospital-drama-14-hours-17204/20041105tnt01/ Breaking News - Jobeth Williams and Rick Schroder on Call for TNT Original Hospital Drama 14 Hours | TheFutonCritic.com] '14 Hours' was produced through Cosmic Entertainment, which counts Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Oliver Hudson and Kate Hudson as its principals, and sponsored by Johnson & Johnson. The Decades channel aired this movie in March 2017.

Plot



Cast



* JoBeth Williams as Jeanette Makins

* Kris Kristofferson as Chuck Whortle

*Kirsten Robek as Nurse Lily

* Kevin McNulty as Larry Dastych

*Jason Schombing as Bronson

* Rick Schroder as Dr. Foster

*Kim Roberts as Helen

*Karin Konoval as Dr. Estrada

*Simone Bailly as Phoebe

*Rick Dobran as Gary

Backstory



Houston native JoBeth Williams weathered her share of tropical storm and hurricane conditions as a child. Her mother worked as a dietician at Memorial-Herrmann (the Houston-area hospital where '14 Hours' is set) for 18 years.

The premature baby in the movie is based in Zachary Jackson's struggle to survive not only prematurity but also the loss of power to his life-support equipment when he weighed around 2 lbs (1 kilogram). He is now a healthy teenager in the Houston Metropolitan area, and did a fundraiser to make Relief Boxes full of preemie essentials to victims of Hurricane Harvey and delivered them to Intensive Care Units.

The producers were inspired by the Reader's Digest article "BLACKOUT" by Peter Michelmore published in April 2002.

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