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    Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)

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    Tom Hanks is a working stiff named Joe whose doctor (Robert Stack) tells him he only has a short time to live. Hearing the news, Joe accepts an offer from a businessman (Lloyd Bridges); In exchange for a few days of fun on Bridges’ credit cards, Joe will go to a South Seas island – the source of a mineral Bridges needs for his business – and jump in a volcano.

    The natives require a human sacrifice; their chief (Abe Vigoda) can’t find any volunteers. So Bridges brings in Hanks. It’s good public relations and hell, what has Joe got to lose?

    The drudgery of Joe’s office is shrewdly evoked, with Dan Hedaya hilarious as a boss who keeps repeating the same line on the phone (“I know he can get the job, but can he do the job?”).

    Hanks, as ever, turns a comic line with effortless grace, and Meg Ryan – playing three vastly different women in his life – has rarely been more appealing.

    The catch is that John Patrick Shanley, making his debut as a director, simply can’t do the job.

    There’s no sense of pacing or forethought, and scenes seem thrown together. Individually, the actors are fine, but Shanley can’t blend their divergent styles.

    Things reach the unendurable level when Joe hits the tropics, and we’re treated to antics of orange-drink-guzzling half-Jewish natives, led by Vigoda, that could shame Gilligan’s Island.

    Joe
    Tom Hanks
    DeDe/Angelica/Patricia
    Meg Ryan
    Graynamore
    Lloyd Bridges
    Dr Ellison
    Robert Stack
    Chief of the Waponis
    Abe Vigoda
    Mr Waturi
    Dan Hedaya
    Dagmar
    Amanda Plummer
    Marshall
    Ossie Davis
    Nurse
    Jayne Haynes
    Mike
    David Burton
    Tony
    Jon Conrad Pochron

    Director
    John Patrick Shanley

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