Anne Heche Movie:

Editorial Review:
Get mindless for awhile with this 1997 disaster flick, starring the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles as a funky place for lava to spew, plus Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche as the brave souls who know how to shut off the spout. Director Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard) wastes no time getting to the good stuff--it's happening even before opening credits are over--and neither should anyone in the mood for technical efficiency without the burden of art. --Tom Keogh

Volcano [Region 2] Reviews:
Dante's Peak is better
2009-10-10 - Anne Heche almost single-handly ruins this movie with her horrible over acting. Tom Lee Jones shows his one dimensional acting style and the rest of the cast submits mediocre performances as well. About the only thing done well was the lava, and I was rooting for it envelope Anne Heche and Tom Lee Jones in a fiery death. Unfortunately, they survive. This movie also trys to force a "we are the world" kind of theme, but showing how confronting lava can *gasp* bring people together in the force of adversity. A contrived plot device that could have definitely been left out. I think Dante's Peak captured a more realistic tone - when the eruption comes its pretty much everyone for themselves! If you do watch this movie, just watch it to root for the lava to destroy LA.

The Coast is Toast
2009-10-08 - This is a story about an earthquake that triggers the eruption of a hidden volcano under downtown L.A. and threatens to destroy the entire city and bring it to ruins. The main characters are Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche. This movie is packed full of jaw-dropping special effects and will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Volcano arises in Los Angeles on Wilshire Blvd.
2009-09-27 - It is morning in Los Angeles and Hollywood and we are treated to the sites of a few landmarks and lifestyles going on in the city as we have sound clips of radio and television news programs.
At 9: 13am, an Earthquake strikes. The epicenter is in Palmdale, California.
At McArthur Park in Los Angeles, two construction men are steamed to death by sulfur gas rising up.
The next morning, another strong earthquake ratles from Palmdale to Los Angeles.
On Wilshire Blvd, a geyser of steam shoots out of every manhole.
At La Brea Tar Pits, smoke, ash and fireballs shoot in the air. Molten lava spills out onto Wilshire Blvd.
A metro Red Line subway train is stuck in the tunnel.
Fast-paced high adrenaline movie about a volcano suddenly forming and erupting out of McArthur Park.

Cast includes: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffman, Jacqueline Kim, Keith David, John Corbett, James MacDonald.

Real recognizable newsreporters: Larry Carroll, Harvey Levin, Rick Garcia, Warren Olney, Steve Edwards, Takayuki Yamauchi,Frank Buckley, Kerry Kilbride, Dorothy Lucey, Angie crouch, Shepard Smith and many more.

Running time: 1:43.

Special Features are only the theatrical trailer and bios of selected cast members.
Option of language in English or French. Option of subtitles in English & Spanish.

Of course, this movie is fantasy about a volcano and lava terrorizing Los Angeles because in real-life their is no volcano caldera at La Brea Tar Pits nor McArthur Park.
However, it is true that earthquakes do happen in Palmdale and Los Angeles, Califronia. McArthur Park was indeed a swampland at one time until top soil and trees were brought in. A concrete bottom was made after construction of the Metro Red Line which runs underneath the park. The water comes from natural springs.
As of 2009, The Metro Red Line Subway route for "Subway to the Sea" is being excavated along Wilshire Blvd. They promise any tar and prehistoric bones will be carefully removed, especially at Curson Ave. & Wilshire.
As of 2009, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa would like the Subway to the Sea to be completed by 2019.


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2009-07-08 - The movie's great came in just in time no scratches of any kind nothing more or less.

Run for your life!! Oh wait, the lava only moves 2mph............
2009-07-01 - Downtown LA has a volcano under it and Tommy Lee Jones is here to stop the magma onslaught. That's right, even when you thought there weren't enough disaster movies involving a major city- here comes `Volcano' to help make you realize that Mother Nature is still in charge. I can't believe this movie has been out so long w/o me seeing it!! This movie has so many unbelievable parts I can't list them all but it did make for a very funny movie experience.
Let's try a few-with all the seismic coverage that California is blanketed with because of the San Andreas Fault you would think that someone would have had a heads up on a active volcano under the city (maybe, maybe not-actually!) Tommy doesn't know what lava is? Go figure. Anne Heche seems to be the only geologist in the city. There is a part where Heche is in the subway and places a thermometer into the dirt and it reads out to over 600 degrees as if she could have even gotten that close to TAKE the temp to begin with!! How about where we have humans that can't seem to outrun the 2mph moving lava? Tommy Lee jumps with his dumber than (lava) rock 13 year old 100+ pound daughter in his hands from the ground up onto the hood of a station wagon to escape the molten killer (pretty impressive for a man of 51yrs at that time). Jones and Heche see lava coming down the subway by hanging a camera down a manhole from the street, they lose the camera, pull back from the manhole and then Tommy sticks his face back over the manhole to see the lava and the 1200 degree temps don't burn his face off. The lava only seems to go where Jones's daughter will be in the city. Don Cheadle talks a lot on the phone and that's all. The `ash' looks like gray painted Styrofoam falling everywhere. A lady has a dog trapped in a house that has lava going through the front yard into the front of the house of it and guess what? The dog gets out the back door just in time then runs BACK through the front yard to its happy owner.
This is only a small sample.....be sure to watch it yourself for some good laughs. This would have been a better movie if the movie itself was not meant to be so serious!!!