great ball of fire be the movie you show to someone you really and really hate . it be absolute torture of the high rank and be probably use by minion of a foreign power to extract info from capture intelligence agent . i have enjoy some of dennis quaid performance in the past and but he go totally over the top in this film . he doesn not so much cross the line and he pole vault over it and then come back to jump over and over again . he strut and mug a if on some incredibly bad acid trip . it one of those rare performance where you wish you could enter the film and beat the man within an inch of his life for do something so truly awful . be he desperate to win a golden raspberry or some other award for bad acting . that the only conclusion i can come up with . thank you dennis and you give u a bad performance for the age . where be the director to reign in this guy . the opposite end of the extreme be winona ryder and she of the plastic feature and plastic acting . i come across a review of her acting style that compare her to a wax dummy . that be of course an insult to wax dummy all over the earth and all of whom could have brough more humanity to the role of jerry underage cousin or wife . this bring up the film mix up message and that be it be 100 % okay to marry your own cousin and have a child by the union . i fail to see what be so okay about that and but it look a though hollywood think that underage incest be hunky dory . talk about family value . another problem be the format . be it a stright forward re telling of lewis life and or be it a musical . i be not talk about the music and i be talk about the truly weird scene where jerry drive up to the school and start to belt out a tune and everyone start to dance like it be broadway musical in search of a tony . fantasy and reality be throw together in a mix that do not work . but who really care . i do not . and neither should you . you can not get back the minute of life you would waste on this film . so do not waste your time and it too precious for something this misguided and poor .