GREAT BALLS OF FIRE! - BLU-1989-DENNIS QUAID-OLIVE FILMS

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• Release Year: 1989
• Genre: Drama, Music
• Plot: Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow) and Winona Ryder (TV’s Stranger Things) star in the biographical drama Great Balls of Fire!, directed by Jim McBride (The Big Easy). Quaid portrays rock ‘n’ roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis in a film that traces his rise to fame and scandalous personal life, including his marriage to his 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown (Ryder). Seated comfortably between soap opera and docudrama, Great Balls of Fire! offers the viewer a look inside the life of a gifted artist and his Icarus-like rise in the music world. But what goes up …; ; Featured in supporting roles are Alec Baldwin (TV’s 30 Rock) as Lee’s cousin, the pre-televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, Trey Wilson (Raising Arizona) as legendary music producer Sam Phillips, Stephen Tobolowsky (Groundhog Day) as music promoter Jud Phillips, with Lisa Blount (An Officer and a Gentleman) and John Doe (Road House) as Lois and J.W. Brown, Myra’s parents.;
• Cast: Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, John Doe, Stephen Tobolowsky, Trey Wilson, Alec Baldwin, Steve Allen, Lisa Blount, Joshua Sheffield, Mojo Nixon, Jimmie Vaughan, David Ferguson, Robert Lesser, Lisa Jane Persky, Paula Person, Valerie Wellington, Booker T. Laury, Michael St. Gerard, Carol Russell, Crystal Robbins, Tav Falco, Ryan Rushton, Bert Dedman, David A. Penhale, Carl Bogan, Richard Crowe, Melisa J. Levine, Cassie Pollard, Mary Yeargin, Bruce Stuart, W.W. Painter, Mark W. Johnson, Jody Lynne, Joseph Woodward Jr., Linn Sitler, Ashley Paige Cook, Sara Van Horn, Juliette Claire Spirson, John Mulrooney, Peter Cook, Kim Smith, David Sibley, Jamila Massey, Ryan Ward, Steven O'Donnell, Bejay Baddin, Kelly Marcel, Julie Balloo, Ruth Kettlewell, John Tordoff, Keith McDaniel, Stephanie Pope, Lorraine Fields, Rufus Thomas, Maurice Miller, Susan Lonergan, Bonnie Beutler, Chris Solari, Snowy Winters, Priscilla Harris, John Bloom, Kelli Clevenger, Mary Healey-Pisano, Tike Kerby, Darrell Kiedo, Scott Sumers, Jim McBride, Myra Lewis, Murray Silver Jr., Jack Baran
• Director: Jim McBride
• Runtime: 1:48
• Company: Olive Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Orion Pictures
• Media Format: Movie