Movie: Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
- Director: John Patrick Shanley
- Release Date: 9 March 1990 (USA)
- Run Time: 102 min
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy , Romance
Tagline: An Average Joe. An Adventurous Comedy.
Trivia: At the end, Joe refers to the “crooked road” he traveled. He walked the crooked sidewalk to the factory, drove the crooked road from the airport, then walked the final crooked path to the top of the volcano, all of which were in the same lightning bolt shape.
Goofs: Revealing mistakes: In the storm scene, Joe and Patricia are facing each other (having just kissed) when the boom hits Patricia in the back of the head. In the subsequent cut, she is flung (face-first) into the ocean, but Joe is nowhere to be seen – she would have taken him with her, or at least knocked him over. He’s also taller than she is, so he would have been hit too (clearly, nobody had time to duck).
“Joe versus the Volcano is a fable which opens with somewhat surrealistic scenes of the dehumanization of Joe Bank’s job and work environment (at a company whose product rather literally screws people) with imagery that seems to have been inspired by the classic film Metropolis. Joe is diagnosed with an incurable disease, quits his dehumanizing job, and accepts an offer to briefly “live like a king, die like a man” – but to fulfill his agreement he must willingly jump into a live volcano on the island of Waponi Woo in order to appease the volcano god. En route to the island, Joe meets a series of interesting characters in NYC and LA, then boards a yacht, captained by Patricia Graynamore. During the voyage Joe and Patricia survive disaster, fall in love, and finally arrive at the island where they face their destiny. Written by <talford@mitre.org>”
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