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Joe Versus the Volcano

Joe Versus the Volcano

1990
102 min
Comedy Romance

Plot Summary

Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.

5.8
IMDb Rating
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Ratings & Reviews

5.8
IMDb Rating

Technical Details

102 min
Runtime
1990-03-09
Release Date
Movie
Content Type
1990
Year
Genres
Comedy Romance

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User Reviews

Wuchak

Wuchak

5.0/10
Recent

**_Good message, decent movie, albeit really odd_** That pretty much sums up this 1990 film starring Tom Hanks as a miserable man stuck in an uninspiring job. After learning he's going to die in six months, he accepts an offer to live it up for a couple of weeks and sacrifice himself in a volcano on some nondescript Pacific island. Right off the bat, the movie tips off that it's more fantasy than reality. There's a great message about not selling your life -- your dreams -- for whatever pa...

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GenerationofSwine

GenerationofSwine

10.0/10
Recent

Bare with me here, because things are hazy. I distinctly remember renting this at our old small town independent pre-Block Buster video rental establishment. Back when it stopped selling porn (for a few years) and devoted the back room to Betamax and Laser Disc before they moved on to a bigger building. I remember riding my bike there with my father when I was ten. I remember seeing the poster in one of the two small windows. I remember the other new releases on the shelf, and I remember r...

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