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Volcano

  • 5.6 /10

  • 1616

  • 48%

Plot

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.

Cast

Tommy Lee Jones as Mike Roark
Tommy Lee Jones

as Mike Roark

Anne Heche as Dr. Amy Barnes
Anne Heche

as Dr. Amy Barnes

Gaby Hoffmann as Kelly Roark
Gaby Hoffmann

as Kelly Roark

Don Cheadle as Emmit Reese
Don Cheadle

as Emmit Reese

Jacqueline Kim as Dr. Jaye Calder
Jacqueline Kim

as Dr. Jaye Calder

Keith David as Lt. Ed Fox
Keith David

as Lt. Ed Fox

John Corbett as Norman Calder
John Corbett

as Norman Calder

Michael Rispoli as Gator Harris
Michael Rispoli

as Gator Harris

John Carroll Lynch as Stan Olber
John Carroll Lynch

as Stan Olber

Movie Facts

Rated

  • PG-13

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • April 25, 1997

Production Companies

  • 20th Century Fox

  • Fox 2000 Pictures

  • Shuler Donner / Donner & Moritz Original Productions

Production Countries

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • Deutsch

  • Español

  • English

Budget

  • $90,000,000.00

Revenue

  • $122,823,468.00

Runtime

  • 1.73 hrs

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Reviews

When Los Angeles starts blowing off a little more steam than usual, it falls to disaster emergency supremo "Rourke" (Tommy Lee Jones) to find out what is going on - and when that turns out to be an impending volcanic eruption, he enlists the help of "Dr. Barnes" (Anne Heche) to stop it destroying the city. To be fair, there are plenty of great pyrotechnics and the film pretty much starts in fourt…