Lisa & Joe

Dorrie Joiner (1959 - 1999)

Dorrie portrayed Lisa's best friend, Sandy. She have one of the funnier lines at the movie "rules like don't get pragnant, don't touch his thing".

There's lack of information about this actress but let me show you what we've found. She received training at University of South Alabama and the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. Had a son, Jansen Carl Bennett, with the producer Matthew Bennet. She had complications with her diabetes and died 15 January 1999 in New York City.

Baxter

Daniel Bernard (D.B.) Sweeney plays Thomas Baxter, the Barracudas's lider.

Born November 14, 1961, in Shoreham, New York. He has two sisters and one brother. Before he thought about acting he wanted to be a professional baseball player, but a motorcycle accident ended that dream. He graduated from Tulane University. He has made four theater appearances on both Broadway and in L.A. productions. He used the name Danny Sweeney at the beginning of his acting career, but since there was another actor with that name on the SAG/AFTRA productions, he had to change his name, and chose D.B. Sweeney.

He first started out with small roles, gradually increasing the size of his parts as he began appearing in mini-series and TV shows. He has been a voice for two Disney children movies. His love of baseball did land him two roles, playing Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988) and a baseball coach in Hard Ball (2001). He has appeared in science-fiction movies including Fire in the Sky (1993) and he appealed to female fans in the romantic The Cutting Edge (1992), in which he played an ex-hockey layer turned figure skater. That role led to his playing hockey in celebrity games.

Recently he has moved from actor to writer/director with his film _Dirt Nap (2006/II)_ , which has been a big hit at film festivals. He is married and has one child.

Myron

Jeffrey Jay Cohen plays the ingenious and slightly offbeat mapmaker in «Fire With Fire», who is Joe Fisk best friend at the probation camp and provides the plan for Joe and Lisa to be together.
"Mapmaker is the kind of guy who will stand up to anyone and everybody, despite the fact he will get his butt kicked bt anyone and everyone. Still, he won't back down", says Cohen.

«Fire with Fire» marks the third film in a row where Cohen has played the sidekick to the lead character. He played Skinhead in Steven Spielberg's «Back to the Future» and the C. Thomas Howell's best buddy in «Secret Admirer».

"This role in Fire with Fire is much larger in scope than anything else I have ever done. Mapmaker is sort of nerdy, but he's also sensitive, intelligent and sentimental. With those aspects to a character, you're able to find more colors than in a leading man role", Cohen maintains.

Joe Fisk

Craig Sheffer, stars as the street-smart Joe Fisk in Fire With Fire somewhat unjustly confined to an honor probation camp in Oregon, who when running through the woods in the midst of a competitive race, comes across Lisa (Virginia Madsen).

Backstage one night, Sheffer slipped and reinjured the knee he initially had hurt when he was quarterback for East Strousberg College (Pennsylvania). Reconstructive surgery was the only route to prevent permanent damage to the knee.

"A couple of days before surgery, my agent called said that Jackie Burch (the casting director) wanted me to read for this filme Fire With Fire, I said the surgery would keep me on crutches past the start date...I finally broke down, read for Jackie Burch and director Duncan Gibbins and then took a cab to the hospital and had a knee surgery the next morning".

He had not bothered to read the script for the movie, for the meeting and instead did improvisational material with Gibbins, who immediately decided, as did the others involved, that Sheffer was their man for the part of Joe Fisk, surgery or not.

"The minut i could take phone calls, everyone wanted to come by and bring different actresses to read with me right in the hospital. I put everyone off for a week and then did a screen test where no one could tell I was on crutches".

The filming on Fire with Fire did start on time, which forced the actor to wear a brace under his pant's leg durining filming. All scenes that required physical activity on his part were pushed back as far as possible. Like his co-start Virginia Madsen for her role, Sheffer was able to draw parallels from his own life to develop Joe Fisk. "For Joe, The Story is about Leaning how to trust, which quite frankly has been a problem in my own life".

Despite where Joe Fisk is and what has brought him to the detention camp, Sheffer sees him as someone teenagers can look up to "first of all he's only in the detention camp for driving his mom's car though a sears auto store window. Joe has an amazing lack of prejudice for someone his age. He takes people at face value, like mapmaker who no one else likes, and is also friends with Ben Halsey who is rather disturbed over certain personal things".

Lisa Taylor

Virginia Madsen portrays the beautiful and intelligent Lisa Taylor who takes matters into her own hands after seeing Joe Fisk (Craig Sheffer) first in the woods, then at a local movie theatre. It is Lisa who initiates the idea of a school dance with the boys from the nearby prison camp.

Virginia Pulled a lot out of her own life to help develop Lisa in Fire with Fire because "like Lisa, I was pretty much of a loner in high school, some would have had stronger words".

"Lisa has a lot of questions about life and is not getting the answers in the existence she's leading, so she's ready for someone like Joe to come into her life".

This chance encounter ignites a spontaneous emotional reation in each of them, and sets them on a path that will change their lives forever. Together, they break the rules, defy the establishment, and they must fight fire with fire all the way!