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Volcano (1997) 5.3
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5.3/10 from 40,251 users
Metascore: 55/100
Reviews: 158 user | 79 critic | 22 from Metacritic.com A volcano erupts in downtown L.A., threatening to destroy the city. Director:Mick Jackson |
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Cast
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| Tommy Lee Jones | ... | ||
| Anne Heche | ... | ||
| Gaby Hoffmann | ... | ||
| Don Cheadle | ... | ||
| Jacqueline Kim | ... | ||
| Keith David | ... | ||
| John Corbett | ... | ||
| Michael Rispoli | ... | ||
| John Carroll Lynch | ... | ||
| Marcello Thedford | ... | ||
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Laurie Lathem | ... | |
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Bert Kramer | ... |
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Bo Eason | ... | |
| James MacDonald | ... |
Terry Jasper
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| Dayton Callie | ... | ||
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Something unspeakably chilling is ultimately starting to heat up at The City of Los Angeles! Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city! Written by Anthony Pereyra <hypersonic91@yahoo.com>
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It's Hotter than Hell! See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for intense depiction of urban disaster and related injuries | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
25 April 1997 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Vulkan See more »Box Office
Budget:
$90,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$62,600,000 (Non-US) (31 October 1997)Gross:
$47,474,112 (USA) (1 August 1997)Company Credits
Production Co:
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions, Moritz Original See more »
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Truck driver: What "rest of 'em?" This is it!
Lt. Fox: Hey, there only about eighty here!
Truck driver: Eighty-two; everything else is stuck on the 5 and the 10.
Lt. Fox: We're trying to keep the city in one piece, pinhead. Eighty rails ain't gonna do it!
Truck driver: So what are you blaming me for?
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Written by Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman and Maxine Lapiduss
Performed by Wendy & Lisa
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Television
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Trivia
An elaborate miniaturized portion of the doomed city, which was destroyed as the lava flowed, was constructed inside hangar #1 at the San Bernardino International Airport. See more »Goofs
Eruptions that produce lots of flowing lava don't produce heavy ashfall. See more »Quotes
Roark: [Roark ordered 200 "K-rails" (freeway dividers) to redirect the lava. Trucks arrive with only 82] Where's the rest of 'em?Truck driver: What "rest of 'em?" This is it!
Lt. Fox: Hey, there only about eighty here!
Truck driver: Eighty-two; everything else is stuck on the 5 and the 10.
Lt. Fox: We're trying to keep the city in one piece, pinhead. Eighty rails ain't gonna do it!
Truck driver: So what are you blaming me for?
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Soundtracks
"Where the Day Takes You"Written by Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman and Maxine Lapiduss
Performed by Wendy & Lisa
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Television
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Well this is just a very average film stuffed full of the usual mainstream disaster genre clichés. Even myself as a staunch defender of the genre can not bring myself to rate it above average, because sadly it is something of a wasted opportunity. The film's cast is full of very reliable and solid performers, the budget was there to bring out some daring sequences, and of course the basic community in peril plot is always one of interest. So to get anything from this film you really do have to check the brain at the door and suspend all belief because the writers have rewritten the laws of gravity and the intensity of molten lava in full flow.
The film would compete with Dante's Peak in the same year for the title of best Volcano disaster film, it lost, but so did the fans of the genre. For even today we are still waiting for a Volcano based film to grip and excite us, because even with the advance of technology both 1997 Volcano movies teeter on the brink of boredom, even if they just about fail to actually tip into the abyss. 5/10