Joe Versus the Volcano PG

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  • Rated: PG
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 2, 2002
  • Originally Released: 1990
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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User Ratings: 49,979
Rating: 3/5 -- Cult classic with smoking, kissing, stereotypes. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Sep 19, 2012
...[Meg Ryan] has rarely been more appealing...
Rolling Stone
Apr 19, 1990
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Joe Versus the Volcano achieves a kind of magnificent goofiness. Hanks and Ryan are the right actors to inhabit it, because you can never catch them going for a gag that isn't there: They inhabit the logic of this bizarre world and play by its rules. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
Like Woody Allen's filmmaking evolution played out in reverse: it starts as smart, existential black comedy and ends in broad, zany caricature. Full Review
Brooklyn Magazine
Feb 9, 2015
Rating: 0/5 -- The unredeemable result of Hollywood's total capitulation to the Spielberg/Lucas aesthetic of the 80s.
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Mar 10, 2004
It speaks to the commercial and critical success of Shanley's 1987 hit 'Moonstruck' that he was handed, by a major studio, the resources to make a movie as unapologetically weird as this one. Full Review
Flavorwire
Jun 23, 2017
Rating: 3/5 -- A more fascinating mess you'll never find.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Nov 1, 2004

Product Description:

When an average man living a thoroughly unfulfilling life is diagnosed with a terminal disease he quits his job and accepts a millionaire's odd offer -- to travel to a south seas island and sacrifice himself to a volcano. In this odd but touching film Meg Ryan plays three roles.

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  • UPC: 085391606024
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