An average Joe. An adventurous comedy.
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy
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.
102 min
Rating: 5.752/10
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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
Movie Info
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy
Production Companies: Amblin Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures
Countries: United States of America
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What Others Said
Wuchak:
**_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 couple of weeks and sacrifice himself in a volcano on some nondescript Pacific island.
Right off the bat, the movie tips off that it's more fantasy than reality. There's a great message about not selling your life -- your dreams -- for whatever pathetic wage they're offering at the local factory or whatever the case. But the final act fizzles out in Giligan's Island cartooniness.
Meg Ryan co-stars in a three-pronged role.
GRADE: C+
GenerationofSwine:
Bare 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 and Laser Disc before they moved on to a bigger building.
I remember riding my bike there with my father when I was ten. I remember seeing the poster in one of the two small windows. I remember the other new releases on the shelf, and I remember renting this on VHS with a Beta Danger Mouse.
And then I remember thinking it was a drama because of the start of the film, cracking up about the luggage, cracking up about the actual volcano climax, and that is about it.
But I guess the point is that I remember laughing, and that is what matters.