The life and career of wildly controversial rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis.The life and career of wildly controversial rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis.The life and career of wildly controversial rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJerry Lee Lewis re-recorded his songs for this film, which Dennis Quaid lip-syncs. At first, Quaid wanted to record his version of the songs over Lewis' objections, and did. Lewis was surprised at how good he was, and at one point it was proposed that Lewis do half the songs and Quaid half. When Quaid heard the new re-recordings done by Lewis, he changed his mind, and agreed that all the songs should be done by Lewis.
- GoofsThe song "Great Balls of Fire" is shown climbing the Billboard charts to number one. The song only made it to number two.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Jerry Lee Lewis: Well, if I'm going to hell, I'm going there playing the piano!
Featured review
This is quite possibly the worst performance of Dennis Quaid's career. The rubber-faced mugging he does neither looks like Jerry Lee nor does the phony "voice" he uses during this performance. His lip-syncing is always just a half-beat behind the music. Although Dennis had the wavy hair like The Killer, it wasn't long enough in the back to look like Jerry. His acting was a farce when he'd throw back his head in an apparent attempt to look arrogant. He failed. Alec Baldwin is also not very believable as Jimmy Swaggart (I actually knew the man in my youth). The storyline was okay but it could not overcome Quaid's awful acting. Especially at the airport when they are leaving England and he tells England to kiss his ass. Dennis, why did you sink so low?
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Velike vatrene kocije
- Filming locations
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- $16,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $13,741,060
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,807,986
- Jul 2, 1989
- Gross worldwide
- $13,741,060
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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