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| Directed by | Gregg Champion |
| Produced by | Frances Croke Page Shanna Nussbaum |
| Written by | Danilo Bach |
| Starring | JoBeth Williams Ricky Schroder Kris Kristofferson |
| Music by | Joseph Conlan |
| Cinematography | Gordon Lonsdale |
| Editing by | Gib Jaffe |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | April 3, 2005 |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
14 Hours is a 2005 medical emergency docudrama produced for the TNT Network and starring JoBeth Williams. The film was set in Houston, Texas and filmed in Vancouver, Canada. Based on true-life events surrounding Tropical Storm Alison in 2001, the film was released internationally on DVD by Paramount Pictures.[1] 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.[2]
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14 Hours is based on the harrowing events of June 2001, when Tropical Storm Allison stalled over the Houston metropolitan area, pouring nearly 30 inches of rain on the city within a 14-hour period. The story begins as the storm seems to be moving away from Houston. Jeanette Makins (JoBeth Williams), a nurse at Memorial Hermann Hospital, arrives ready for what she expects to be a normal day. But Tropical Storm Allison's rains return, quickly turning a normal day into a nightmare. As floodwaters inundate the lower levels of the hospital, a brilliant young surgeon, Dr. Foster (Rick Schroder), makes the decision to move the patients to safer ground, including a young couple whose premature baby is struggling for life, as well as, a girl and her mother, severely hurt in a car accident. With the resourceful thinking of Chuck Whortle (Kris Kristofferson), chief of Harris County Emergency Management, the hospital staff and volunteers race against the clock to get all patients to safety.
Houston native JoBeth Williams weathered her share of tropical storm and hurricane conditions as a child. Interestingly, her mother worked as a dietician at Memorial-Herrmann (the Houston-area hospital where 14 Hours is set) for 18 years.[3]