Fire with Fire | |
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Directed by | Duncan Gibbins |
Produced by | Gary Nardino |
Written by | Bill Phillips Warren Skaaren Paul Boorstin Sharon Boorstin |
Starring | Craig Sheffer Virginia Madsen Jon Polito J. J. Cohen Kate Reid |
Music by | Howard Shore |
Cinematography | Hiro Narita |
Editing by | Peter E. Berger |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date(s) | May 9, 1986 |
Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $4,636,000 |
Fire with Fire is a 1986 romantic drama film about a young woman from a Catholic boarding school who runs away with an escapee from a nearby prison camp. The film stars Craig Sheffer and Virginia Madsen, was directed by Duncan Gibbins, and features a soundtrack by noted film composer Howard Shore. It has never been released in DVD format.
In this fact-based adolescent melodrama, Joe Fisk is a juvenile delinquent who falls in love with Lisa Taylor, a beautiful Catholic girl's school student, in an Oregon forest. The two meet by accident when the troubled young man stumbles upon her while being chased by his peers in a training exercise, and sees the lovely girl floating in a small lake as she works on a photography assignment-recreating the Pre-Raphaelite painting Ophelia, John Millais 1850. The two are immediately drawn to each other, but neither of their custodians encourage contact with the opposite sex and when their relationship is discovered there is trouble all around, forcing the young lovers to flee. The question then remains: will they be able to escape the law and other authorities long enough to find happiness?
Actor | Role |
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Craig Sheffer | Joe Fisk |
Virginia Madsen | Lisa Taylor |
Jon Polito | Mr. Duchard, the Boss |
J. J. Cohen | Myron, the "Mapmaker" |
Kate Reid | Sister Victoria |
Jean Smart | Sister Marie |
Ann Savage | Sister Harriet |
Tim Russ | Jerry Washington |
David Harris | Ben Halsey |
D. B. Sweeney | Thomas Baxter |
Kari Wührer | Gloria |