Continuity mistake: When DeDe walks into Joe's apartment at the end of their date, she places her handbag on the floor a few steps across from the door. When she comes back in to get the bag because she forgot it after she leaves, she reaches for the bag just inside the door.
Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
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Directed by: John Patrick Shanley
Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack
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Joe vs the volcano is a fairy tale that explores the adventure of life. It is a call to adventure that follows a simple man who for reasons that he doesn't understand, finds himself fighting the banality of life in a Hero's journey on the other side of the world facing death. It is a lot like Forrest Gump, but without the boomer nostalgia. It is like Peter Sellers' "Being There" without the hippieness.
It is childlike, and naive, and in all honesty the humor and plot seem to fall apart at times, but I find it charming. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan play their roles in a child like simplicity and their chemistry pulls me through. Still one of my favorite movies, for no good reason.
More mistakes in Joe Versus the Volcano
Joe Banks: Where do you get your ideas?
Angelica: You have to understand something about art. It comes from someplace.
Trivia: The entire story is on the desk lamp at the beginning of the story, and the lightning bolt is at every important change in the plot of the story.
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