Yes, the lip-synching was perhaps a bit too obvious at times, but for the sake of hearing some great music performed by the real Jerry Lee Lewis, that was an irritant I could easily put up with. Dennis Quaid gives an over the top performance (sometimes a bit too over the top but, then again, this is Jerry Lee Lewis) as Lewis, arrogant and child-like, trying to deal with sudden fame, having to deal with the consequences of having married his thirteen year old cousin (Myra, who authored the book).

HuggoДЄn excellent job by director Jim McBride of putting Myra Lewis's book about the life of legendary rock and roll star Jerry Lee Lewis (her husband) on film. Jerry Lee Lewis, and who in part was looking for a protector in her fear during this nuclear age. and his wife Lois' thirteen year old daughter, Myra Gale Brown, who would go on imminently to become Myra Lewis, aka Mrs. He may derail his own success in his reckless behavior, especially falling prey to his urges with adoring young female fans, the most scandalous relationship being with J.W. Against the many odds, he is able to gain that success, the odds including the Christian moral majority largely denouncing his type of music - hard driving rock 'n' roll - as that of the devil and thus anti-Christian, with one of his most vocal opponents with regard to his music being another cousin, sidewalk evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

Success and what goes along with it - fame and money - are arguably foremost on his mind. Brown, playing his rollicking version of the music he has always been interested in: what he heard emanating from the black honky-tonks of the south. The year is 1956, and he, as the front man, is trying to break into the business in a combo with among others his cousin, J.W. A semi-fictionalized account of the early career of Jerry Lee Lewis is presented.

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