Great Balls of Fire! - Vampate di fuoco
Trama
Biografia di Jerry Lee Lewis (1925), pianista e cantante rock concentrata sul triennio 1956-58. Secondo solo a Elvis Presley, eccentrico, arrogante, attratto da alcol e altri eccitanti, nel moralismo puritano e borghese ancora imperante in quegli anni, rischiò di rovinarsi la carriera sposando in terze nozze una cuginetta tredicenne. Regista non trascurabile del cinema indipendente, J. McBride fa un film di un manierismo elegante ma inerte. D. Quaid si è calato nel personaggio con apprezzabile immedesimazione.
(1989) Dramma , Storia , Musica
Data rilascio : 30/06/1989
regia di Jim McBride
Budget : 17.000.000,00 $
Incasso : 13.700.000,00 $
Cast
Dennis Quaid - Jerry Lee Lewis
Winona Ryder - Myra Gale Brown
John Doe - J.W. Brown
Stephen Tobolowsky - Jud Phillips
Alec Baldwin - Jimmy Swaggart
Lisa Blount - Lois Brown
Trey Wilson - Sam Phillips
Steve Allen - himself
Michael St. Gerard - Elvis
Mojo Nixon - James Van Eaton
Kelli Clevenger - Dancer (uncredited)
Joshua Sheffield - Rusty Brown
Robert Lesser - Alan Freed
Lisa Jane Persky - Babe
Paula Person - Sam's Secretary
Valerie Wellington - Big Maybelle
Carol Russell - Mamie Lewis
Crystal Robbins - Frankie Jean
Tav Falco - New Bass Player
Ryan Rushton - Young Jimmy
Bert Dedman - Young Jerry
David A. Penhale - Reporter #1
Carl Bogan - Reporter #2
Richard Crowe - Reporter #3
Melisa J. Levine - Kreme Cup Girl
Cassie Pollard - Kreme Cup Girl
Mary Yeargin - Kreme Cup Girl
Mark W. Johnson - Sheriff
Jody Lynne - Party Doll
Joseph Woodward Jr. - Wedding Preacher
Linn Sitler - Real Estate Agent
Sara Van Horn - Minnie Belle
John Mulrooney - Talk Show Host
Peter Cook - First English Reporter
Kim Smith - Second English Reporter
David Sibley - Third English Reporter
Jamila Massey - Bystander
Ryan Ward - Heckler #1
Steven O'Donnell - Heckler #2
Bejay Baddin - Teenage Girl #1
Kelly Marcel - Teenage Girl #2
Julie Balloo - Female Fan
Ruth Kettlewell - Dowager
John Tordoff - Cockney Porter
Keith McDaniel - Haney's Big House Dancer
Stephanie Pope - Haney's Big House Dancer
Lorraine Fields - Haney's Big House Dancer
Rufus Thomas - Haney's Big House Dancer
Maurice Miller - Haney's Big House Dancer
Susan Lonergan - Rebel Room Dancer
Bonnie Beutler - Rebel Room Dancer
Snowy Winters - Rebel Room Dancer
Priscilla Harris - Honky-Tonk Angel
John Bloom - Dewey 'Daddy-O' Phillips
Tike Kerby - Rebel Room Dancer (uncredited)
Darrell Kiedo - Haney's Big House Dancer (uncredited)
Scott Sumers - Graceland Fan #1 (uncredited)
Chris Solari - Rebel Room Dancer
Jimmie Vaughan - Roland Janes