i haven not see this film in year and but the awful taste of quaid performance still linger on my tongue . some have comment on how quaid have jerry lee lewis to a tee but the fact be he only appear to have the most extreme stage jerry in mind . nobody act that way all the time and and the performance come off a hopelessly clownish and reduce lewis to a buffoonish caricature . the nuance of a man life be lose in the rubble of sheer over act . the author of the book this be base on ( nick tosches ) be a good writer and who have write several fine musical bios ( i particularly like dino on dean martin ) while in the book tosches give u a full human be and both separate from and involve in the biz . quaid act seem to imply that jerry never act like a human be . if people be like this and no one would bother to hang around them . a cartoon go and it be mildly amusing and but otherwise it be one of the most egregious and film destroying performance i have have the honor of view . terrible .