Volcano 1997

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 100 min

genre: drama

theme: disaster

director: Mick Jackson

Score: 5 / 10

Volcano is a 1997 American disaster film directed by Mick Jackson, written by Jerome Armstrong and Billy Ray, and produced by Neal H. Moritz and Andrew Z. Davis. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones in the lead role, with Anne Heche, Don Cheadle and Keith David. It tells the story of an effort to divert the path of a dangerous lava flow through the streets of Los Angeles following the formation of a volcano at the La Brea Tar Pits. The story was inspired by the 1943 formation of the Parícutin volcano in Mexico.

Plot

In downtown Los Angeles, an earthquake strikes. Mike Roark, the new director of the city's Office of Emergency Management, insists on coming to work to help with the crisis even though he has been on vacation with his daughter, Kelly. His associate Emmit Reese notes that the quake caused no major damage, but 7 utility workers are later burned to death in a storm drain at MacArthur Park. As a precaution, Mike tries to halt the subway lines near the location of the earthquake, though MTA Chairman Stan Olber believes that there is no threat to the trains. Seismologist Amy Barnes believes that a volcano may be forming beneath the city as the earthquake opens a fissure in the fault line, but she has insufficient evidence to make Mike take action.

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More details

author	Billy Ray
contentLocation	Los Angeles
director	Mick Jackson
editor	Don Brochu Michael Tronick
genre	drama thriller
keywords	b line bomb squad build cedars-sinai medical center cinder cone concrete barriers condominium crush earthquake end fall injured jersey barrier jump kill la brea tar pits lapd lava bomb little boy los angeles county metropolitan transportation authority los angeles metro rail los angeles police department macarthur park mta office of emergency management power outage rain red line san andreas san andreas fault seismologist seismology storm drain subway lines subway train taken shape above ground volcanic bomb volcanic edifice volcano west west side westside wilshire boulevard
musicBy	Alan Silvestri
producer	Andrew Z. Davis Neal H. Moritz
productionCompany	Fox 2000 Pictures Moritz Original Shuler Donner/Donner
publisher	20th Century Studios
recordedAt	Los Angeles Mojave Desert
theme	disaster firefighting transport