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Joe Versus the Volcano

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Joe Versus the Volcano is a 1990 American romantic comedy film written and directed by John Patrick Shanley and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. [1]

57 relations: Abe Vigoda, Amanda Plummer, Amblin Entertainment, Barry McGovern, Blue Moon (1934 song), British Board of Film Classification, Carol Kane, Come Go with Me, Cult film, Dan Hedaya, Elvis Presley, Eric Burdon, Everyman, Flibbertigibbet, Georges Delerue, Good Lovin', Hava Nagila, Howard the Duck (film), I Cover the Waterfront (song), John Alvin, John Patrick Shanley, Kenneth Wannberg, Lloyd Bridges, Mas que Nada, Meg Ryan, Merle Travis, Nathan Lane, New York City, Ol' Man River, On the Street Where You Live, Ossie Davis, Pacific Ocean, Ray Charles, Richard Halsey, Richard Schickel, Robert Stack, Roger Ebert, Rolling Stone, Romantic comedy, San Diego, Sixteen Tons, Staten Island, Stephen Goldblatt, Sui generis, Superconductivity, The A.V. Club, The Del-Vikings, The Ink Spots, The New York Times, The Rascals, ..., Time (magazine), Tom Hanks, Varèse Sarabande, Vincent Canby, Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Expand index (7 more) »

Abe Vigoda

Abraham Charles Vigoda (February 24, 1921 – January 26, 2016) was an American character actor who was known for a number of roles, such as his portrayals of Salvatore Tessio in The Godfather (1972) and Phil Fish in Barney Miller (1975–1977, 1982) and Fish (1977–1978).

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Amanda Plummer

Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American actress.

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Amblin Entertainment

Amblin Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded by director and producer Steven Spielberg, and film producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall in 1981.

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Barry McGovern

Barry McGovern (born 1948) is an Irish stage, film and television actor.

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Blue Moon (1934 song)

"Blue Moon" is a classic popular song written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934, and has become a standard ballad.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Carol Kane

Carolyn Laurie Kane (born June 18, 1952) is an American stage, screen and television actress and comedian.

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Come Go with Me

"Come Go with Me" is a song written by C. E. Quick (a.k.a. Clarence Quick), an original member (bass vocalist) of the American doo-wop vocal group The Del-Vikings (also spelled Dell Vikings on Dot records releases, with no dash).

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Cult film

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.

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Dan Hedaya

Daniel G. Hedaya (born July 24, 1940) is an American actor.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Eric Burdon

Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941) is an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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Everyman

In literature and drama, the term everyman has come to mean an ordinary individual with whom the audience or reader is supposed to be able to identify easily and who is often placed in extraordinary circumstances.

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Flibbertigibbet

Flibbertigibbet is a Middle English word referring to a flighty or whimsical person, usually a young woman.

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Georges Delerue

Georges Delerue (12 March 1925 – 20 March 1992) was a French composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television.

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Good Lovin'

"Good Lovin'" is a song written by Rudy Clark and Arthur Resnick that was a number one hit single for the Young Rascals in 1966.

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Hava Nagila

"Hava Nagila" (הבה נגילה, Havah Nagilah, "Let us rejoice") is a Jewish folk song traditionally sung at Jewish celebrations.

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Howard the Duck (film)

Howard the Duck is a 1986 American science fiction comedy film directed by Willard Huyck and starring Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, and Tim Robbins.

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I Cover the Waterfront (song)

"I Cover the Waterfront" is a 1933 popular song and jazz standard composed by Johnny Green with lyrics by Edward Heyman.

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John Alvin

John Henry Alvin (November 24, 1948 – February 6, 2008) was an American cinematic artist and painter who illustrated many movie posters.

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John Patrick Shanley

John Patrick Shanley (born October 13, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and theater/film director.

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Kenneth Wannberg

Kenneth Gail Wannberg (born June 28, 1930, in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer and sound editor.

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Lloyd Bridges

Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. (January 15, 1913 – March 10, 1998) was an American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films.

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Mas que Nada

"Mas, que Nada!" is a song written and originally performed in 1963 by Jorge Ben Jor on his debut album, which became Sérgio Mendes' signature song in his 1966 cover version.

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Meg Ryan

Meg Ryan (born Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra; November 19, 1961) is an American actress, director, and producer.

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Merle Travis

Merle Robert Travis (November 17, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Rosewood, Kentucky.

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Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane (born Joseph Lane; February 3, 1956) is an American actor and writer.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Ol' Man River

"Ol' Man River" (music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II) is a show tune from the 1927 musical Show Boat that contrasts the struggles and hardships of African Americans with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River.

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On the Street Where You Live

"On the Street Where You Live" is a song with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, from the 1956 Broadway musical, My Fair Lady.

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Ossie Davis

Ossie Davis (born Raiford Chatman Davis; December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and civil rights activist.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known professionally as Ray Charles, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer.

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Richard Halsey

Richard Halsey is an American film editor with more than 60 credits from 1970 onwards.

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Richard Schickel

Richard Warren Schickel (February 10, 1933 – February 18, 2017) was an American film historian, journalist, author, documentarian, and film and literary critic.

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Robert Stack

Robert Stack (born Charles Langford Modini Stack, January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003) was an American actor, sportsman, and television host.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Romantic comedy

Romantic comedy (also known as the portmanteaus romedy or romcom) is a genre with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles.

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San Diego

San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.

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Sixteen Tons

"Sixteen Tons" is a song written by Merle Travis about a coal miner, based on life in coal mines in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

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Staten Island

Staten Island is the southernmost and westernmost of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York.

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Stephen Goldblatt

Stephen Goldblatt, A.S.C., B.S.C. (born 29 April 1945) is a South African-born British cinematographer, noted for his work on numerous high-profile action films, including the first two entries in the ''Lethal Weapon'' series, as well as for his recent collaborations with director Mike Nichols and Tate Taylor.

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Sui generis

Sui generis is a Latin phrase that means "of its (his, her, their) own kind; in a class by itself; unique." A number of disciplines use the term to refer to unique entities.

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Superconductivity

Superconductivity is a phenomenon of exactly zero electrical resistance and expulsion of magnetic flux fields occurring in certain materials, called superconductors, when cooled below a characteristic critical temperature.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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The Del-Vikings

The Del-Vikings (also known as The Dell-Vikings) are an American doo-wop musical group, who recorded several hit singles in the 1950s, and continued to record and tour with various lineups in later decades.

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The Ink Spots

The Ink Spots were an American pop vocal group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Rascals

The Rascals (initially known as The Young Rascals) were an American rock band, formed in Garfield, New Jersey in 1965.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tom Hanks

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Varèse Sarabande

Varèse Sarabande is an American record label, owned by Concord Music Group and distributed by Universal Music Group, which specializes in film scores and original cast recordings.

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Vincent Canby

Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video is the home video distribution arm of Warner Bros. Founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (standing for Warner Communications, Inc.), the company primarily releases titles from the film and television library of Warner Bros.

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When Johnny Comes Marching Home

"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (sometimes "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again") is a popular song from the American Civil War that expressed people's longing for the return of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the war.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Versus_the_Volcano

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