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Joe Versus the Volcano

    Comedy
    Romance
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Mar 9, 1990
Rated PG-13

Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.

Details

  • Directors
  • Revenue$39,400,000
  • Budget
    $25,000,000
  • Vote Average
    5.7
  • Vote Count
    520
  • Popularity
    20
  • Language
    English
  • Origin Country
    US

Cast

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Tom Hanks
Joe Banks
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Meg Ryan
DeDe / Angelica / Patricia Graynamore
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Lloyd Bridges
Samuel Harvey Graynamore
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Dan Hedaya
Frank Waturi
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Ossie Davis
Marshall
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Barry McGovern
Luggage Salesman
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Robert Stack
Dr. Ellison
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Amanda Plummer
Dagmar
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Lala Sloatman
Waitress
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Abe Vigoda
Chief of the Waponis
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Carol Kane
Hairdresser
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Branscombe Richmond
Waponi
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Jayne Haynes
Nurse
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David Burton
Mike
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Jon Conrad Pochron
Tony
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Jim Hudson
Fred - Guard
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Antoni Gatti
Italian Tailor
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Darrell Zwerling
Underwear Salesman
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Jim Ryan
Bellman
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Karl Rumburg
Ralph
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Brian Esteban
Emo - Waponi Lookout
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Nathan Lane
Baw - The Waponi Advance Man
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Wally Ruiz
Spanish Singer
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Guillermo Guzman
Spanish Singer
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Tommy Franco
Spanish Singer
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Tony Salome
Clerk
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Courtney Gibbs
Saleswoman
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Jennifer Stewart
Statue of Liberty
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William Ward
Salesman - Hammacher Schlemmer
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Paul Michael Thorpe
God Woo
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Michael George
Musician (uncredited)

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Reviews

(2)
Wuchak
50%
**_Good message, decent movie, albeit really odd_** That pretty much sums up this 1990 film starring Tom Hanks as a miserable man stuck in an uninspiring job. After learning he's going to die in six months, he accepts an offer to live it up for a couple of weeks and sacrifice himself in a volcano on some nondescript Pacific island. Right off the bat, the movie tips off that it's more fantasy than reality. There's a great message about not selling your life -- your dreams -- for whatever pathetic wage they're offering at the local factory or whatever the case. But the final act fizzles out in Giligan's Island cartooniness. Meg Ryan co-stars in a three-pronged role. GRADE: C+
GenerationofSwine
100%
Bare with me here, because things are hazy. I distinctly remember renting this at our old small town independent pre-Block Buster video rental establishment. Back when it stopped selling porn (for a few years) and devoted the back room to Betamax and Laser Disc before they moved on to a bigger building. I remember riding my bike there with my father when I was ten. I remember seeing the poster in one of the two small windows. I remember the other new releases on the shelf, and I remember renting this on VHS with a Beta Danger Mouse. And then I remember thinking it was a drama because of the start of the film, cracking up about the luggage, cracking up about the actual volcano climax, and that is about it. But I guess the point is that I remember laughing, and that is what matters.