Blu-ray, DVD Release: Great Balls of Fire

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Laurence
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 27, 2017
Price: DVD $13.75, Blu-ray $16.45
Studio: Olive

Dennis Quaid (Pandorum) and Winona Ryder (Black Swan) star in the 1989 music-filled  biographical romance-drama Great Balls of Fire!, which makes its Blu-ray debut with this release.

Directed by Jim McBride (The Big Easy), Quaid portrays rock ‘n’ roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis in a film that traces his rise to fame and scandalous personal life, including his marriage to his 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown (Ryder).

Featured in the colorful supporting cast are Alec Baldwin (Still Alice) as Lee’s cousin, the pre-televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, Trey Wilson (Raising Arizona) as legendary music producer Sam Phillips, and Stephen Tobolowsky (Groundhog Day) as music promoter Jud Phillips. Also on board are Lisa Blount (An Officer and a Gentleman) and John Doe (Road House) as Lois and J.W. Brown, Myra’s parents.

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.