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Volcano

Volcano

The coast is toast.

19975.91h 44m

Overview

An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.

Directed by Mick Jackson
Written by Billy Ray, Jerome Armstrong
Produced by Neal H. Moritz, Andrew Z. Davis
Box OfficeBudget: $90.0MRevenue: $122.8M

Top Cast

Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones

Mike Roark

Anne Heche

Anne Heche

Dr. Amy Barnes

Gaby Hoffmann

Gaby Hoffmann

Kelly Roark

Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle

Emmit Reese

Jacqueline Kim

Jacqueline Kim

Dr. Jaye Calder

Keith David

Keith David

Lt. Ed Fox

John Corbett

John Corbett

Norman Calder

Michael Rispoli

Michael Rispoli

Gator Harris

John Carroll Lynch

John Carroll Lynch

Stan Olber

Marcello Thedford

Marcello Thedford

Kevin

Themes & Keywords

lavasubwayvolcanovolcanologyburned alivedisasterlos angeles, californiadisaster moviefiremenabsurdambiguousaudaciousawestruckdefiantembarrassedvibrant

About Volcano

Volcano is a science fiction, action, drama, thriller film released in 1997 exploring themes of lava, subway, volcano, volcanology, burned alive, disaster. Directed by Mick Jackson, it stars Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann. An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.

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