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Joe Versus the Volcano is a 1990 American romantic comedy film written and directed by John Patrick Shanley and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.Executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall of Amblin Entertainment, Joe Versus the Volcano follows the titular Joe Banks (Hanks), who, after being told he is dying of a rare disease, accepts a financial offer to travel ...
Eric Burdon's version of "Sixteen Tons" is the opening song of the 1990 American film Joe Versus the Volcano. Songwriter Rupert Holmes cited "Sixteen Tons" as an inspiration for his song "Timothy", about a pair of miners who are implied to have cannibalized their fellow miner when the three are trapped following a mine collapse.
Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American actress. She is known for her work on stage and for her film roles, including Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), The Fisher King (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994), and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013).
It marked the third pairing of Hanks and Ryan, who previously appeared together in Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993), the latter directed by Ephron. The film takes its name from the greeting AOL users receive when they get a new email.
Joe Versus the Volcano: John Patrick Shanley: March 9, 1990: Warner Bros. Pictures: N/A Back to the Future Part III: Robert Zemeckis: May 25, 1990: Universal Pictures: U-Drive Productions Gremlins 2: The New Batch: Joe Dante: June 15, 1990: Warner Bros. Pictures: Michael Finnell Productions Arachnophobia: Frank Marshall: July 18, 1990: Buena ...
The Big Wu is a rock jam band from Minnesota.The group is composed of Al Oikari, Andy Miller, Chris Castino, Mark Joseph Grundhoefer, and Terry VanDeWalker.The band made a mark on the jam band scene with a reputation for hook-oriented songwriting and as one of the earliest jam bands from the Midwest to achieve some national success.
Another metaphor is the "crooked road" theme which appears as the path Joe takes to enter the factory, the logo to the factory and the lightning bolt that sinks the Tweedle-Dee and the path of torches the natives take up to the top of the volcano. Joe, at the mouth of the volcano, refers to his life as "a crooked road."
Films about volcanoes, ruptures in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allow hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.