Story Line
Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.
“An average Joe. An adventurous comedy.”
Top Cast
Tom Hanks
Joe Banks
Meg Ryan
DeDe / Angelica / Patricia Graynamore
Lloyd Bridges
Samuel Harvey Graynamore
Dan Hedaya
Frank Waturi
Ossie Davis
Marshall
Barry McGovern
Luggage Salesman
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Rating
5.8/ 10
Release Date
1990-03-09
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
ComedyRomanceAdventure
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User Reviews (3)
Wuchak
5/10
•6/26/2022**_Good message, decent movie, albeit really odd_**
That pretty much sums up this 1990 film starring Tom Hanks as a miserable man stuck in an uninspiring job. After learning he's going to die in six months, he accepts an offer to live it up for a ...
GenerationofSwine
10/10
•1/12/2023Bare with me here, because things are hazy.
I distinctly remember renting this at our old small town independent pre-Block Buster video rental establishment. Back when it stopped selling porn (for a few years) and devoted the back room to Betamax ...
kevin2019
8/10
•10/31/2025"Joe Versus the Volcano" is a most off-beat and unusual film, but the central message it advocates is a common one. Life is worth living and this is never more relevant and meaningful than when life is slowly ebbing away and coming to an end and perh...