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Released
Volcano
April 25 1997 (almost 28 years ago)Rating
59
Based on
1536 reviews
The coast is toast.
- Director: Mick Jackson
- Writers: Billy Ray, Jerome Armstrong
- Genres: Science Fiction, Action, Drama, Thriller
- Runtime: 1 h 44 m
- Budget: $90,000,000
- Box office: $122,823,468
- Country: United States of America
- Companies: 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, Shuler Donner / Donner & Moritz Original Productions, Fox
An 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.