Catchfire is a 1990 American action thriller film directed by Dennis Hopper and starring Jodie Foster, Dennis Hopper, Fred Ward and Vincent Price. Several other notable actors have cameos. The film was disowned by its director before release and he is therefore credited under the fictional pseudonym Alan Smithee. The original screenplay was written by Rachel Kronstadt Mann, then re-written by Ann Louise Bardach, who was hired by Dennis Hopper and producer Steven Reuther. During the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, Hopper retained Alex Cox to do another polish while the film was shooting.