Catch a Fire (2006)
"The spark that ignites us, unites us."
ThumbScore
👍 65%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 68%
(RT: 75%, MC: 62) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Bonnie Mbuli as Precious Chamusso
Mncedisi Shabangu as Zuko September
Tumisho Masha as Obadi
Sithembiso Khumalo as Sixpence
Terry Pheto as Miriam
Michele Burgers as Anna Vos
Is Catch a Fire good?
It's divisive. 65% audience score, estimated from 155 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 68%.
Overview
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission. Wikipedia ↗
