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#ALL I NEED IS JESUS BY JIMMY SWAGGART MUSIC VIDEO MOVIE#

The film was in wide release for ten days. The first week's gross were $3,807,986 and the total receipts for the two-week run were $13,691,550. The film opened in wide release in the United States on June 30, 1989.

Young Artist Awards: Young Artist Award Best Young Actress Starring in a Motion Picture, Winona Ryder 1990.

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 63% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 24 reviews. It also captures, perhaps for the first time on film, something of the sexual aura of rock-and-roll at its birth." Yet, she added that anyone looking for a true sense of music history will be let down by the film. Lewis, played by Dennis Quaid as a grinning simpleton with a crazy streak and a manic piano style, climbs the same career ladder as many of the stars of musical biographies, but he does it with lightning speed." Ebert also said that Quaid did a nice job of reproducing Lewis' stage persona.Ĭritic Caryn James wrote that the film portrays the fun side of rock and roll, and wrote, "Jim McBride's film is a compressed, cleaned-up version of the Jerry Lee Lewis story, but it re-creates the soul-shaking, brain-rattling fun of rock-and-roll. Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, did not like the film because of its screenplay, and wrote, "This is a simpleminded rock 'n' roll history in which the pleasures are many and the troubles are few. The film was shot on location in Marion, Arkansas, Memphis, Tennessee, and West Memphis, Arkansas. He died at age forty from a cerebral hemorrhage in January 1989, prior to the film's release. This was the final film of character actor Trey Wilson. Quaid even learned to play "Lewis-style" piano for the role. Lewis did, however, praise Quaid's portrayal of him in the film, saying "he really pulled it off". Lewis has openly stated that he hates the film and the book it was based on.

# ALL I NEED IS JESUS BY JIMMY SWAGGART MUSIC VIDEO MOVIE#

Director Jim McBride admitted that it was never his intention to tie his film to the facts, and stated "This movie does not represent itself in any way to be a historical documentary. Despite this, co-writer Silver was upset by the lack of accuracy in the film, claiming it was "phoney". The story was co-written by Myra Gail Lewis (her autobiography Great Balls of Fire!), the former wife of Jerry Lee Lewis, with Murray Silver. When Jimmy offers one more chance to become saved and get right with God, Jerry Lee again refuses, declaring, "If I'm going to hell, I'm going there playing the piano!" The caption preceding the closing credits reads, "Jerry Lee Lewis is playing his heart out somewhere in America tonight." Production Jerry Lee and Myra attend a church service conducted by Swaggart. It was during one of these abusive episodes that Myra informs Jerry Lee that she is pregnant, and he collapses into Myra's arms, crying hysterically.

He is furious when requested to print a public apology in Billboard and becomes increasingly abusive toward Myra. Jerry Lee begins drinking heavily when record sales and concert attendances are significantly down. However, the scandal follows him back to the States. But it does not diminish Jerry Lee's confidence that his career will continue. As a result, his British tour is cancelled and he is deported from England. Jerry Lee is then condemned as a child molester and a pervert by the public. While Jerry Lee is touring in England 1958, a British reporter discovers he is married to his teenage cousin. The now-financially successful Jerry Lee buys a new car and gives it to his cousin, and when Jimmy praises the Lord for the gift, Jerry Lee replies, "Don't thank Jesus, thank Jerry Lee Lewis!" Jimmy's career kept him in constant conflict with his cousin's wild rock and roll career and brings out some uncomfortable exchanges between the two. Brown (John Doe), and eventually marries her (eloping to Mississippi), much to the anger and chagrin of her parents.Ī subplot deals with Jerry Lee's relationship with another cousin, (now-televangelist) Jimmy Swaggart (Alec Baldwin), who, during this period, was a struggling Pentecostal preacher. As Jerry Lee rises to the top of the charts with such hits as "Crazy Arms", "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On", and "Great Balls of Fire", he falls in love with Myra Gale Brown (Winona Ryder), the 13-year-old daughter of his first cousin (and bass player) J. Jerry Lee is a man with many different sides: a skilled performer with little discipline, and an alcoholic. Jerry Lee Lewis (Quaid) plays piano (as opposed to a guitar like most other rock artists) during rock and roll's early years from 1956 to 1958.