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{{quote|''We're going to put as many people in front of it as it takes. Listen up, people! Let me tell you what's south of us: no more museums, no more department stores, just homes! People! If we turn and run now, they're going to be defenseless! You don't like my plan? That's good. Give me a another plan, but don't tell me we're backing out!'' |'''Mike Roark'''}}

 

 

''Volcano'' is a 1997 [[Disaster Movie]] directed by Mick Jackson and starring [[Tommy Lee Jones]]. He plays Mike Roark, head of the Los Angeles Emergency Management Center. One day, after an early morning Earthquake, Roark discovers fire erupting below the city. A scientist, Dr. Amy Barnes ([[Anne Heche]]), points him to volcanic activity brewing underneath the La Brea Tar Pits. Later that night, an actual volcano emerges from the tar pits and erupts.

* [[Feet of Clay]]: Minor example with Kelly having a scene with her father about what to do during an earthquake, yet during an actual earthquake she just sits in bed and screams until her father pulls her out and puts them under a doorway.

* [[Genre Blindness]]: The usual disaster movie ignorance is of course present but the fact no-one in LA has no clue what lava is verges on the ridiculous. Sure, the first time people actually see lava it's understandable they do a double-take. However it soon gets to the point where the film seems to be set in an alternate reality where the very ''existence'' of volcanoes is an obscure geological fact completely unfamiliar to the public.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: The train conductor that gets saved by Stan is Ernie from George Lopez.

* [[Infant Immortality]]: All the small children survive. And so does a small Jack Russell named Bill. Just incase that wasn't enough to assure you no innocents were harmed there is even a brief news report on vets setting up an emergency pet shelter.