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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Trailers
Laughs erupt when Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan fall in love and fall in lava in Joe Versus the Volcano, a colorful, stylish laughquake written and directed by Moonstruck Oscar winner John Patrick Shanley. As Joe, Hanks adds to his phenomenal string of successes that includes, Splash, Big and Turner & Hooch. And Meg Ryan follows up her starmaking When Harry Met Sally...with three roles, playing each of the women in Joe's life. When we first meet Joe, he has the white-color blues. Every day is Monday, the boss is always in a bad mood and the cumulative stresses convince Joe has a terminal condition called a "brain cloud." So when a zany jillionaire pops up and offers him a fleeting taste of the good life, Joe leaps at the chance. All he must do in return is leap into a volcano. But funny things happen on the way from the urban isle of Manhattan to the remote tropical isle of Waponi Woo... Out of the corporate frying pan. Into the fire. Is Joes doomed to be the last of the red-hot lovers? Not if the forces of courage, love and comedy have their way.
"A lot of laughs. Inspired lunacy!" Jack Garner, GANNETT NEWS SERVICE
"[An] imaginative farce..." VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever
"A funny, endearing fable. Witty and beautiful." Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times
Editor's Note
When an average man living a thoroughly unfulfilling life is diagnosed with a terminal disease he quits his job and accepts a millionaire's odd offer -- to travel to a south seas island and sacrifice himself to a volcano. In this odd but touching film Meg Ryan plays three roles.
| Features | Trailer | | Cast Film Highlights | | "Making Of..." Documentary | | All-New Digital Transfer | | Behind-The-Scenes Featurette | | Eric Burdon "Sixteen Tons" Music Video | | Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16x9 TVs | | Audio: English Dolby 5.1 Surround & 2.0 Stereo, French | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean Thai |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 4/3/2007 |
| Running Time: 102 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1990 | | Catalog ID: 16060 | | UPC: 00085391606024 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Premiere
"...Hanks delivers a take-this-job-and-shove-it performance for the ages..." 07/01/1994 p.90Rolling Stone
"...[Meg Ryan] has rarely been more appealing..." 04/19/1990 p.38 USA Today
"...A surreal fable that fairly erupts with comic left-turns..." 03/09/1990 p.4D Los Angeles Times
"...It's actually a funny, endearing fable about courage, love and faith..." 03/09/1990 p.F1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...The movie introduces its individuality in its opening shot....[Ryan shows] here that she is a gifted comic actress..." 08/08/1993 p.4 Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 6 of 10
[A] pleasant if pointless fable...it is fun watching Ryan play three distinctively different women... and remember, luggage is everything.
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