14 Hours (2005 film)

For the 1951 film, see Fourteen Hours.

14 Hours is a 2005 medical emergency docudrama starring JoBeth Williams, Kris Kristofferson and Ricky Schroder.^[1] The film was set in Houston, Texas and filmed in Vancouver, Canada.^[2] The film premiered on TNT on April 3, 2005. Based on true-life events surrounding Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, the film was released internationally on DVD by Paramount Pictures.^[3] 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.^[4][5] The Decades channel aired this movie in March 2017.

14 Hours
Promotional movie poster
Written by	Danilo Bach
Directed by	Gregg Champion
Starring	JoBeth Williams Ricky Schroder Kris Kristofferson
Theme music composer	Joseph Conlan
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Frances Croke Page Shanna Nussbaum
Cinematography	Gordon Lonsdale
Editor	Gib Jaffe
Running time	95 minutes
Original release
Network	TNT
Release	April 3, 2005 (2005-04-03)

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.^[6] 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.