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25/04/1997 Science Fiction, Action, Drama, Thriller 1h 44m
59
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It's hotter than hell.

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.

  1. Mick Jackson

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Tommy Lee Jones

    Mike Roark

  2. Anne Heche

    Dr. Amy Barnes

  3. Gaby Hoffmann

    Kelly Roark

  4. Don Cheadle

    Emmit Reese

  5. Jacqueline Kim

    Dr. Jaye Calder

  6. Keith David

    Lt. Ed Fox

  7. John Corbett

    Norman Calder

  8. Michael Rispoli

    Gator Harris

  9. John Carroll Lynch

    Stan Olber

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-05-27
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 fourth gear - but the ending really lets it down. Not the science, that's quite entertaining as they have to use subway tunnels, storm drains and quite a bit of dynamite; it's the "have to rescue my daughte...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$90,000,000.00

Revenue
$122,823,468.00

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