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This is the kind of ’80s cheese that works for me. Virginia Madsen plays a girl trapped in Catholic school. Craig Sheffer plays a convict in a correctional camp pretty close to Madsen’s school. The two meet in the woods one day, instantly fall for one another, but can’t get any mackin’ time for all the nuns and nasty wardens. So they plot a daring escape and hope to live happily ever after in a cabin deep in the remote mountains… unless the powers that be find them and demolish the fantasy. Fire with Fire is predictable and overwrought, but damn it — I have a soft spot for young lovers trying to escape the confines of reality. Joe Polito plays Sheffer’s over-the-top nasty warden and Designing Women‘s Jean Smart plays a nun sympathetic to the girls’ hormones. With groovy ’80s tunes, beautiful locations, and a completely unnecessary (or necessary?) scene in which Madsen and Sheffer make love surrounded by candles inside a cemetery crypt.