“Joe Versus the Volcano” quotes
(1990)
John Patrick Shanley
directed this movie
in 1990
Title Joe Versus the Volcano
Year 1990
Director John Patrick Shanley
Genre Comedy, Romance
Year 1990
Director John Patrick Shanley
Genre Comedy, Romance
Plot – In New York Joe Banks is haunted by the depressing job in a surgical instruments factory and dominated by a tyrannical boss. Believing he has a rare but deadly disease, he accepts the proposal of an industrialist, Graynamore, to throw himself inside the volcano on the Waponi Woo island in order to appease the god who requires a voluntary human victim. In return Joe will have the opportunity to spend his last days as a nabob, while Graynamore will obtain by the natives a precious mineral, essential for his industry. Resigned to the idea of dying, Joe embarks on a schooner driven by Patricia, Graynamore's daughter, with whom he falls in love. Happily escaped from a shipwreck, they manage to land on Waponi Woo island where, triumphantly greeted, they get married. To never separate they throw together into the volcano and are catapulted into the sea by an explosion. There they find a providential raft of trunks that saves them.
All actors – Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Abe Vigoda, Dan Hedaya, Barry McGovern, Amanda Plummer, Ossie Davis, Jayne Haynes, David Burton, Jon Conrad Pochron
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“- Angelica: So, what did you do before you signed on with Daddy?
- Joe: I was an advertising librarian for a medical supply company.
- Angelica: Oh, I have no response to that.”“Clothes make the man. I believe that. You say to me you want to go shopping, you want to buy clothes, but you don't know what kind. You leave that hanging in the air, like I'm going to fill in the blank, that to me is like asking me who you are, and I don't know who you are, I don't want to know. It's taken me my whole life to find out who I am,...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Patricia: That outfit's wearing you, Felix.
- Joe: Why are you calling me Felix. My name is Joe.
- Patricia: I am calling you Felix because I do what I want.”“Well, does it take more guts to twice traverse a staircase in a burning building, or to make a one-time leap into a volcano? Damned if I know, Kemosabe.”
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