Volcano

About Volcano

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.

Volcano is a 1997 science fiction thriller film directed by Mick Jackson. The film is filed under audacious, awestruck, vibrant, and disaster.

Tommy Lee Jones stars as Mike Roark, Anne Heche as Dr. Amy Barnes, Gaby Hoffmann as Kelly Roark, and Don Cheadle as Emmit Reese. At 104 minutes long, it arrived in April 1997.

The screenplay is by Billy Ray and Jerome Armstrong. Production companies include 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, and Neal H. Moritz Productions. In the United States it streams on Philo, Starz, and Starz Amazon Channel.

The Quake, Apocalypto, and Dante's Peak make useful companions to Volcano, all filed under absurd. TMDB voters put it at 6.0 out of 10 across 1,773 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.