Movie
Fire with Fire
Overview
A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, they must fight the prison authorities, their parents and the law.
Details
- Release date
- 1986-05-09
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Paramount Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Craig Sheffer as Joe Fisk
- Virginia Madsen as Lisa Taylor
- Jon Polito as Boss Duchard
- J.J. Cohen as Mapmaker (as Jeffrey Jay Cohen)
- Kate Reid as Sister Victoria
- Jean Smart as Sister Maria
- Kari Wührer as Gloria
- D. B. Sweeney as Baxter
- Ann Savage as Sister Harriet
- William G. Schilling as Watley
- David Harris as Ben
- Tim Russ as Jerry
Crew
- Duncan Gibbins - Director
- Bill Phillips - Screenplay
- Warren Skaaren - Screenplay
- Paul Boorstin - Screenplay
- Sharon Boorstin - Screenplay
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