It's hotter than hell.
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.
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Classical in form, contemporary, unpretentious and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Tommy Lee JonesMike Roark
- Anne HecheDr. Amy Barnes
- Gaby HoffmannKelly Roark
- Don CheadleEmmit Reese
- Jacqueline KimDr. Jaye Calder
- Keith DavidLt. Ed Fox
- John CorbettNorman Calder
- Michael RispoliGator Harris
- John Carroll LynchStan Olber
- Marcello ThedfordKevin
Crew
- Mick JacksonDirector
- Jerome ArmstrongScreenplay
- Billy RayScreenplay
- Theo van de SandeDirector of Photography
- Alan SilvestriOriginal Music Composer
- Don BrochuEditor
- Michael TronickEditor
- Andrew Z. DavisProducer
- Neal H. MoritzProducer
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