A vulcanologist arrives at a countryside town recently named the second most desirable place to live in America, and discovers that the long dormant volcano, Dante's Peak, may wake up at any moment.
Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.
On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon capsizes after being swamped by a rogue wave. The survivors are left to fight for their lives as they attempt to escape the sinking ship.
Director:
Wolfgang Petersen
Stars:
Richard Dreyfuss,
Kurt Russell,
Emmy Rossum
Communist Radicals hijack Air Force One with The U.S. President and his family on board. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a Veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board.
Volcanologist Harry Dalton and mayor Rachel Wando of Dante's Peak try to convince the city council and the other volcanologists that the volcano right above Dante's peak is indeed dangerous. People's safety is being set against economical interests.Written by
Rune Dahl Fitjar <rfitjar@online.no>
The shirt Greg wears on the first day of observing Dante's Peak is a graph showing the eruptions of the Cascade volcanoes in the past 4000 years. See more »
Goofs
When the volcano had started erupting, Harry and Rachel rushed back to her place in his truck to get her kids. The both of them run into her house and she found the letter from the kids. They run back out to the truck and the truck's headlights are on. They're standard headlights, which appear yellow in color. They leave and find the bridge is jammed with traffic and Harry decides to cross the river. In the shot of them crossing the road and going down the bank towards the river, not only are all the truck's lights on - not just the headlights - but they're very bright, white, possibly HID headlights until the truck's demise. See more »
Quotes
Harry Dalton:
My 9th grade science teacher always said that if you put a frog in boiling hot water, it would jump out. But put it in cold water, and heat it up gradually, it would slowly boil to death.
Nancy:
What's that Harry? Your recipe for frog soup?
Harry Dalton:
It's my recipe for a disaster.
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First watched Dante's Peak when it was released in 1997 and as a kid thought it was brilliant. Just watched it again and I have to say, wow. It is a great film, full of entertainment and action. Yes it is cheesy at times and bits are a bit far fetched e.g. driving over lava, but putting that a side it is a fantastic film.
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First watched Dante's Peak when it was released in 1997 and as a kid thought it was brilliant. Just watched it again and I have to say, wow. It is a great film, full of entertainment and action. Yes it is cheesy at times and bits are a bit far fetched e.g. driving over lava, but putting that a side it is a fantastic film.