The explosive story of the meteoric rise of rock and roll's most daring living legend, Jerry Lee Lewis (Dennis Quaid). Features the songs and escapades that catapulted him to the top of the charts, as well as his controversial third marriage to his 13-year-old cousin, which almost destroyed his career. Read more
| Starring | Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, Trey Wilson, Lisa Blount |
|---|---|
| Director | Jim McBride |
| Genres | Drama |
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The explosive story of the meteoric rise of rock and roll's most daring living legend, Jerry Lee Lewis (Dennis Quaid). Features the songs and escapades that catapulted him to the top of the charts, as well as his controversial third marriage to his 13-year-old cousin, which almost destroyed his career.
| Starring | Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, Trey Wilson, Lisa Blount, Alec Baldwin, Stephen Tobolowsky |
|---|---|
| Director | Jim McBride |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 42 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English, German |
| Subtitles | DVD: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish |
| Released | Production year: 1989 To Rent: DVD: 23 Jun 2003 |
The trouble with this biopic is that it attempts to convey too many aspects of the Jerry Lee Lewis legend. His marriage... read more on Time Out
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Depends on whether you're interested in Lewis
This biopic of musician Jerry Lee Lewis is frustrating because it fails to get beyond the surface of the singer and offers those with no real prior knowledge of... read more »
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Great Balls Cut Short
A good rocking film about one of the masters whose career was effectively cut short by his own actions, although the interruption was in a large way provoked by... read more »
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Customer Review
Having recently started to enjoy the old rock and roll songs again I was looking forward to seeing the life story of one of the great rock and rollers. This ... read more »
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Enjoyable Film
This is an enjoyable film, Jerry Lewis is roughly how I expected him to be. Though I do suspect his body language wasn't quite so strange as Dennis Quaid ... read more »
Movie stardom is well and good, but sometimes it seems like what film stars really want to do is front a band. While Will Smith is a bone fide pop star, and Billy Bob Thornton, Jamie Foxx, Juliette Lewis and Bruce Willis each have an album or two to their credit, Russell Crowe, Keanu Reeves and Johnny Depp have all foisted the frustrated rock n roller within on bemused audiences. It's not surprising that actors tend to make more convincing singers when they're just pretending - and never more... Read more
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