Relegated to video stores following a token Miami release, FIRES WITHIN bears the scars of panicked post-production that make it look more like a lengthy coming attraction than a finished product.
Having fled to Miami after the imprisonment of her husband, Isabel (Greta Scacchi) has amassed an unexplained fortune on her own without practicing her profession as a teacher, enough to put a down payment on a nice house in anticipation of her dissident husband Nestor's (Jimmy Smits) imminent
release from a Cuban prison and arrival on American shores. Complicating matters is her affair with Sam (Vincent D'Onofrio), the hunky fishing-boat captain who saved Isabel and ...
Released:
1991
Rated:
R
Length:
86 mins