Fire with Fire

About Fire with Fire

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.

Duncan Gibbins's Fire with Fire is a 1986 romance film. Released in May 1986, it runs 103 minutes.

Craig Sheffer stars as Joe Fisk, Virginia Madsen as Lisa Taylor, Jon Polito as Boss Duchard, and J.J. Cohen as Mapmaker (as Jeffrey Jay Cohen). The screenplay is by Bill Phillips and Paul Boorstin.

TMDB voters put it at 6.2 out of 10 across 62 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.