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A volcano erupts in downtown Los Angeles, threatening to destroy the city.
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Mick Jackson
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Tommy Lee Jones | ... | Mike Roark | |
| Anne Heche | ... | Dr. Amy Barnes | |
| Gaby Hoffmann | ... | Kelly Roark | |
| Don Cheadle | ... | Emmit Reese | |
| Jacqueline Kim | ... | Dr. Jaye Calder | |
| Keith David | ... | Police Lieutenant Ed Fox | |
| John Corbett | ... | Norman Calder | |
| Michael Rispoli | ... | Gator Harris | |
| John Carroll Lynch | ... | Stan Olber | |
| Marcello Thedford | ... | Kevin | |
| Laurie Lathem | ... | Rachel | |
| Bert Kramer | ... | L.A. Fire Chief | |
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Bo Eason | ... | Bud McVie |
| James MacDonald | ... | Terry Jasper (as James G. MacDonald) | |
| Dayton Callie | ... | Roger Lapher | |
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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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L.A. Erupts in 1997 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:
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Box Office
Budget:
$90,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$14,581,740, 27 April 1997Gross USA:
$49,323,468Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$122,823,468Company Credits
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Color:
ColorAspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Kevin: [seeing the cops coming] Oh, we cool now! It's the LAPD!
Scared Driver: [hiding in the church] Hey, Officer! How about giving us a ride back to civilization, please?
Kevin: Hey, you gonna come out or what! This is *our* hood!
Terry Jasper: Hey, you want to calm down and tell me what this is about?
Kevin: You wanna get outta my face!
Terry Jasper: HEY! If I'm in your face you're gonna KNOW IT! All right, BRO!
Kevin: Huh, Right!
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Traditional composition arranged by Carlos Periguez
Courtesy of Associated Production Music
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Did You Know?
Trivia
An elaborate miniaturized portion of the doomed city, which was destroyed as the lava flowed, was constructed inside hangar number one at the San Bernardino International Airport. See more »Goofs
When the fire truck is hit with a lava bomb and flips over, the truck starts to flip just before it is actually hit. See more »Quotes
[after an earthquake-induced fender bender]Kevin: [seeing the cops coming] Oh, we cool now! It's the LAPD!
Scared Driver: [hiding in the church] Hey, Officer! How about giving us a ride back to civilization, please?
Kevin: Hey, you gonna come out or what! This is *our* hood!
Terry Jasper: Hey, you want to calm down and tell me what this is about?
Kevin: You wanna get outta my face!
Terry Jasper: HEY! If I'm in your face you're gonna KNOW IT! All right, BRO!
Kevin: Huh, Right!
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Alternate Versions
To attract more viewers the German theatrical version was cut to receive a "Not under 12" rating. The German video release contains the complete version and is rated "Not under 16". See more »Soundtracks
Colas, ColasTraditional composition arranged by Carlos Periguez
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Adequate little piece of idiocy as downtown LA plays host to a volcano! Thats right folks, Mount Versuvius does Grauman's Chinese! Ostensibly the simplest of FX needed - simply a modicum of re-colored mud and hey, we got lava!...pretty much a standard color-option within Microsoft Word! They do it well enough though, I gotta admit it LOOKS hot!
Once you put aside the stupidity of it all, its quite a fun movie, one of the better time fillers. Certainly an improvement on the wannabe cerebral companion piece DANTE'S PEAK! Tommy Lee cuts a suitably hands-on emergency resource controller and Kelly Roarke does her career resume no harm as his daughter under siege from lava-bombs at a critical stage of proceedings. Undoubtedly the best scene is that in the wrecked subway as the red hot lava flows beneath the train...you can feel the heat!
Anne Heche is well, the insufferable Anne Heche. How anyone can derive pleasure from watching this actress is beyond me. She is colder than Antarctica and emotes on a par with Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter). I mean to say, anyone with Van Sant's PSYCHO to her credit has to be a re-think!
As an action-fest VOLCANO is as good as anything, like the lava, just let it flow!