Joe Versus the Volcano

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. Hanks plays a man who, after being told he is dying of a rare disease, accepts a financial offer to travel to a South Pacific island and throw himself into a volcano on behalf of the superstitious natives. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the woman taking him there.

Joe Banks Tom Hanks is a downtrodden everyman from Staten Island, working a clerical job in a dreary factory for an unpleasant, demanding boss, Frank Waturi Dan Hedaya. Joyless, listless, as well as chronically sick, Banks regularly visits doctors who can find nothing wrong with him. Finally, Dr. Ellison Robert Stack diagnoses an incurable disease called a brain cloud which has no symptoms, but will kill Joe within five or six months. Ellison says that Joes ailments were psychosomatic, caused by his horrific experiences in his previous job as a firefighter. Ellison advises him, You have some life left...live it well. Joe tells his boss off, quits his job, as well as asks former coworker DeDe Meg Ryan out on a date, but when he tells her that he is dying, she becomes very upset and leaves.The next day, a wealthy industrialist named Samuel Graynamore Lloyd Bridges unexpectedly makes Joe a proposition. Graynamore needs bubaru, a mineral essential for the manufacturing of superconductors. There are deposits of it on the tiny Pacific island of Waponi Woo. The resident Waponis will let him mine it if he can solve a problem for them. They believe that the fire god of the volcano on their island must be appeased by a voluntary human sacrifice once every century, but none of the Waponis are willing to volunteer this time around. Graynamore offers Joe credit cards to pay for whatever he wants to enjoy his final days, as long as he is willing to jump into the volcano withindays. With nothing to lose, Joe accepts. ........

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