Great Balls of Fire! (film)

Great Balls of Fire is a 1989 American biographical 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 Michael Grais, Mark Victor, and Art Levinson.

Jerry Lee Lewis Quaid plays piano as opposed to a guitar like most other rock artists during rock and rolls early years from 1956 to 1958. Jerry Lee is a man with many different sides a skilled performer with little discipline, and an alcoholic. As Jerry Lee rises to the top of the charts with such hits as Crazy Arms, Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On, and Great Balls of Fire, he falls in love with Myra Gale Brown Winona Ryder, the 13yearold daughter of his first cousin and bass player J. W. Brown John Doe, and eventually marries her eloping to Mississippi, much to the anger and chagrin of her parents.A subplot deals with Jerry Lees relationship with another cousin, nowtelevangelist Jimmy Swaggart Alec Baldwin, who, during this period, was a struggling Pentecostal preacher. Jimmys career kept him in constant conflict with his cousins wild rock and roll career and brings out some uncomfortable exchanges between the two. The nowfinancially successful Jerry Lee buys a new car and gives it to his cousin, and when Jimmy praises the Lord for the gift, Jerry Lee replies, Dont thank Jesus, thank Jerry Lee Lewis ........

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