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5.9An 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.
Released: 1997-04-25104 minDir: Mick JacksonScience Fiction, Action, Drama, ThrillerBudget: $90.0MBox office: $123M
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Cast
- Tommy Lee Jones as Mike Roark
- Anne Heche as Dr. Amy Barnes
- Gaby Hoffmann as Kelly Roark
- Don Cheadle as Emmit Reese
- Jacqueline Kim as Dr. Jaye Calder
- Keith David as Lt. Ed Fox
Themes
- lava
- subway
- volcano
- volcanology
- burned alive
- disaster
- los angeles, california
- disaster movie
- firemen
- absurd
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Ratings
IMDb
5.6/10
86,213 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
48%
Metacritic
54/100
- Year
- 1997
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Named after
- volcano
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Mick Jackson
- Screenwriter
- Billy Ray
- Composer
- Alan Silvestri
- Producer
- Lauren Shuler Donner
- Production company
- 20th Century Studios
- Cinematographer
- Theo van de Sande
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Filming location
- Mojave Desert
- Duration
- 100
- FilmAffinity ID
- 688951
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.foxconnect.com/volcano.html
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- publication date
- 1997-04-25
- film editor
- Michael Tronick
- title
- Volcano
- distributed by
- 20th Century Studios
- executive producer
- Lauren Shuler Donner
- different from
- Volcano
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 54/100
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