Joe Versus the Volcano
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Directed by: John Patrick Shanley
Overview
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.
Reviews (2)
Wuchak (Rated: 5)
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...
GenerationofSwine (Rated: 10)
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 bu...
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