Great Balls of Fire! (1989) is an American biographical film, directed by Jim McBride and features Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis. It was written by McBride and Jack Baran, based on an autobiography by Myra Lewis and Murray M. Silver Jr.

The picture executive producers were Michael Grais, Mark Victor, and Art Levinson, and was produced by Adam Fields.

The early life of Jerry Lee Lewis when he became a teen idol and married his 13-year-old cousin Myra is depicted in this film. Many thought Lewis would supplant Elvis Presley as the "King of Rock and Roll" in the 1950s.

Great Balls of Fire is a multimedia installation that explores acts of seeing. The installation environment is an everyday living room, one from which anyone might have witnessed the limiting loop of information on September 11, 2001, and the days that followed. It also has characteristics of a personal library, a realm of interpretation, translation, and the a/v equipment and guts and system wires are showing. The video intercuts homeless visionary James E. Jones's sidewalk commentary with the visual task of an observer trying to grasp those 48 hours during and after the attacks. Horror and humor run on a loop - at once whetting stone and inoculation. In this constructed context of the quintessential living room/personal library, one is asked to re-experience the act of seeing, making sense, and remembering those days, the time that has since passed, and by extension, any day in history. Written by Anonymous

The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry, and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the public. Written by Murray Chapman

Sneaking with cousin Jimmy Lee to check out the dancing people at the Chocolate Bar, Jerry Lee, for the first time hears the piano, playing in a style he soon learns to play. Now living with his cousin J.W., he meets 13 year old Myra and they soon fall for each other. Now Jerry Lee is a rock star and decides to marry his cousin, which started his down fall. The question is will he make it, or will his young wife and his stubborn pride keep him from being the killer himself? Written by wishingsparklingstar