Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)


Released March 9th in the US.
Filmed in California , Hawaii and New York.
The story : Joe is a working stiff.
He hates his job and his boss and feels ill just having to be at work.
Joe constantly visits the doctor but gets no help.
On one particular day he decides to visit a new doctor who advises Joe that he will be dead soon.
Right after leaving the office Joe meets a man with a proposition for him.
He asks that Joe help him by traveling to a foreign land and jumping into a volcano because you know , he is dying and all.
The man offers Joe all the money he can think of and Joe accepts the challenge.
But on his way to the foreign land Joe meets Patricia.
Patricia happens to be the man who hired Joes' daughter and doesn't know what her father is up to this time but falls for Joe....and he , her.
Now everything is changing in Joe's dead end life...
Stars Tom Hanks , Meg Ryan , Dan Hedaya , Robert Stack , Lloyd Bridges , Ossie Davis , Abe Vigoda , Amanda Plummer , Nathan Lane , Brian Esteban , Paul Michael Thorpe 
Directed by (& story written) John Patrick Shanely 
Rated PG
COMEDY/DRAMA

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