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Great Balls of Fire! is a 1989 American biographical drama film directed by Jim McBride and starring Dennis Quaid as rockabilly pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis. Based on a biography by Myra Lewis and Murray M. Silver Jr., the screenplay is written by McBride and Jack Baran. The film is produced by Adam Fields, with executive producers credited as ...
Jun 30, 1989 · Great Balls of Fire!: Directed by Jim McBride. With Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, John Doe, Stephen Tobolowsky. The life and career of wildly controversial rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis.
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- Biography, Drama, Music
- Jim McBride
- 1989-06-30
Rated: 3/5 Jun 26, 2003 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Great Balls of Fire gives us a Jerry Lee Lewis who has been sanitized, popularized and lobotomized. Even then, the story ends in ...
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- Jim Mcbride
- PG-13
- Dennis Quaid
Great Balls of Fire! (1989) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. ... The Tennessee Film, Entertainment and Music Commission
Great Balls of Fire! 1989 The life and career of wildly controversial rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis.Director: Jim McBrideWriters: Myra Lewis (book), Mur...
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This movie is the second collaboration between McBride and Quaid, who made the great "The Big Easy" together in 1987. It's easy to see from that film why it was thought that they could do justice to Lewis. McBride has a natural feel for the South, and Quaid has the ability to play a charming, libidinous con man.
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1989. 1 hr 48 mins. Drama, Music. PG13. Watchlist. A biopic of 1950s rocker Jerry Lee Lewis, whose career all but ended when he married his 13-year-old second cousin. Streaming. Airings. Loading.