Continuity mistake: In the scene where Jack rescues the worker from the warehouse, while lowering the victim - the rope is wrapped around the beam - but in the overhead shot as the floor gives way - the rope is only laying across the beam.
Ladder 49 (2004)
Plot summary
Directed by: Jay Russell
Starring: John Travolta, Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Patrick, Jacinda Barrett
The beginning of the movie starts out with a big warehouse fire. Jack get stuck in the fire saving his friends. The whole movie after that consists of Jack remember his life after joining the fire department which includes getting married and having a child. After he remember his past, he dies in the fire.
More mistakes in Ladder 49
Lenny Richter: Why does it always have to be the 12th floor? Why can't they be on the 4th?
Trivia: In the original script the movie was supposed to be set in New York City, but after the September 11 attacks the location was moved to Baltimore.
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