• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1997-04-25
  • Runtime104 minutes
  • TaglineThe coast is toast.
  • Revenue122,823,468$
  • GenreScience Fiction, Action, Drama, Thriller
  • Production
    Companies20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, Shuler Donner / Donner & Moritz Original Productions
  • Budget90,000,000$

Movie Overview

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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Tommy Lee Jones

Anne Heche

Gaby Hoffmann

Don Cheadle

Jacqueline Kim

Keith David

John Corbett

Michael Rispoli

John Carroll Lynch

Marcello Thedford

Bert Kramer

James MacDonald

Dayton Callie

Kevin Bourland

Valente Rodriguez

Susie Essman

Gerry Black

Lou Myers

Gareth Williams

Richard Penn

Jennifer Estlin

Mickey Cottrell

Darnell Suttles

Sal Rendino

Michael Manuel

Taylor Thorne

Richard Schiff

Brad Blumenthal

Brian Markinson

Robert Wisdom

Katie Rich

Phil Nee

Gary Carlos Cervantes

Wayne Grace

John Bishop

Mother Love

Ron Perkins

Todd Sible

Catherine Schreiber

David Pressman

Danny Comden

Michael McGrady

Michole Briana White

Gary Kent James

Harvey Levin

Frank Buckley

Chris Myers

Shepard Smith

Jeremy Thompson

Michael Villani