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
Great Balls of Fire! is beyond a doubt one of the best movies I have ever seen. It's entertaining, funny, and gives an up close and personal look at the greatest rock star of the 50s. No, not Elvis, I'm talking about Jerry Lee Lewis! Before the movie I had never even heard of him, now he is one of my all-time favorite performers. Trust me, I was 9 years old when this movie came out, and if a movie is so good a 9 year old will pipe-down and watch, then you know its a excellent movie. So do yourself a favor and rent or buy this fantastic movie.
ciao bella!
ciao bella!
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- Release date
- 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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