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Released
1986 · FILM

Fire with Fire

Two lovers. One chance. No time.

Directed by
Runtime
103 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

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.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Peter E BergerShot by Hiro NaritaScored by Howard ShoreDesigned by Norman Newberry

Box Office

1986 · Box office

Grossed $4.6M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$4.6M

Worldwide gross$4.6M

US & Canada: $4.6M 100% of worldwide · International: $700 (0%)

Opening weekend: $1.8M 38% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.3M49% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,000 theaters

Also known as

  • Fire with Fire - Verbotene Leidenschaftde
  • Fuego con fuegoes
  • Le feu par le feufr
  • Tra due fuochiit

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