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5.9An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.
Released: 1997-04-25104 minDir: Mick JacksonScience Fiction, Action, Drama, ThrillerBudget: $90.0MBox office: $123M
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Cast
- Tommy Lee Jones as Mike Roark
- Anne Heche as Dr. Amy Barnes
- Gaby Hoffmann as Kelly Roark
- Don Cheadle as Emmit Reese
- Jacqueline Kim as Dr. Jaye Calder
- Keith David as Lt. Ed Fox
Themes
- lava
- subway
- volcano
- volcanology
- burned alive
- disaster
- los angeles, california
- disaster movie
- firemen
- absurd
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Ratings
IMDb
5.6/10
86,213 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
48%
Metacritic
54/100
- Year
- 1997
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
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