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* LavaPotVolcano: The titular volcano is filled with a sea of molten lava.
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** Joe's Hula girl lamp as well, which has a Polynesian volcano with the same crooked road lava flow.

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** Joe's Hula girl lamp as well, which has a Polynesian volcano with the same crooked road lava flow.flow, a hula girl, a yacht, and a giant moon.

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* ArcSymbol: A distinctive jagged line appears several times during the movie in the company's logo, the entrance to the factory, a crack in a wall, a lightning bolt, the path up the volcano, and even appears in the title card on the film’s trailer as a lightning bolt that travels up it and strikes the top. Joe mentions the "crooked road" his entire life as been, which is represented as the line during all the important times of his life.

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* ArcSymbol: A distinctive jagged line appears several times during the movie in the company's logo, the entrance to the factory, a crack in a wall, a lightning bolt, a tourism poster, the path up the volcano, and even appears in the title card on the film’s trailer as a lightning bolt that travels up it and strikes the top. Joe mentions the "crooked road" his entire life as been, which is represented as the line during all the important times of his life.



* ExplainExplainOhCrap: A brief one, in which Joe realizes that he was tricked by Graynamore and the doctor who was obviously in Graynamore's pay.
-->'''Joe''': I still have a problem. I have a brain cloud.\\
'''Patricia''': A brain cloud...what is a brain cloud?\\
'''Joe''': It's--well, maybe I should get a second opinion.



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%% * RomanticComedy
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* BeautifulAllAlong: Joe getting his hair cut down to standard Tom Hanks length is treated like some great makeover.
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* NiceHat: Joe's "Jungle Jim" outfit.
-->'''Patricia:''' That hat's wearing ''you'', Felix!
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A 1990 RomanticComedy film starring Creator/TomHanks and Creator/MegRyan in their first of three screen pairings (followed by ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'' and ''Film/YouveGotMail'').

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A ''Joe Versus the Volcano'' is a 1990 RomanticComedy film starring Creator/TomHanks and Creator/MegRyan in their first of three screen pairings (followed by ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'' and ''Film/YouveGotMail'').
''Film/YouveGotMail''). The film has a surreal, stylized tone befitting a fairy tale, with the fantastical and the mundane juxtaposed for comedy and pathos.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: The luggage salesmen tells terminally ill Joe that he hopes he lives to be 1,000. To his credit, Joe just smiles at the {{Irony}}.

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* InnocentlyInsensitive: The luggage salesmen salesman tells terminally ill Joe that he hopes he lives to be 1,000. To his credit, Joe just smiles at the {{Irony}}.
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* AFeteWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Attempted and averted. While Joe is willing to leap into the volcano, it spits him out and triggers the island's destruction, showing that willingness isn't enough -- it has to be ''informed'' willingness, and the deception inflicted upon Joe excluded him as a viable sacrifice.]]


* YouHaveToHaveJews: The Waponis are descended from Polynesians, Romans, Celts and Jews, which gives the filmmakers an excuse to make Jewish jokes, like having the Waponis sing "Hava Nagila" when they rescue Joe and Patricia.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Samuel Graynamore is not above making some poor random hypochondriac schmuck believe he has a terminal disease so he can come up to him and convince him to commit suicide via a DareToBeBadass FaceDeathWithDignity speech in order to get exclusive rights for rare earth minerals.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: When Joe finally tells Patricia that he's going to die of a "brain cloud" in the finale, Patricia starts to laugh and asks what a brain cloud is and Joe starts trying to explain before pausing (because he doesn't know, either) and saying aloud that he should have tried to get a second opinion (which probably would have stopped the plot dead in its tracks, barring Graynamore paying off ''that'' doctor as well). Patricia then reiterates that a disease with such a silly name is probably fake and he should have.

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Samuel Graynamore is [[spoiler: not above making some poor random hypochondriac schmuck believe he has a terminal disease so he can come up to him and convince him to commit suicide via a DareToBeBadass FaceDeathWithDignity speech in order to get exclusive rights for rare earth minerals.
minerals.]]
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: When Joe finally tells Patricia that he's going to die of a "brain cloud" in the finale, Patricia [[spoiler: starts to laugh and asks what a brain cloud is and Joe starts trying to explain before pausing (because he doesn't know, either) and saying aloud that he should have tried to get a second opinion (which probably would have stopped the plot dead in its tracks, barring Graynamore paying off ''that'' doctor as well). Patricia then reiterates that a disease with such a silly name is probably fake and he should have.]]



* EccentricMillionaire: Graynamore, who's not as kind as he seems, making a perfectly healthy man commit suicide by making him think he has a fatal disease.

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* EccentricMillionaire: Graynamore, who's not as kind as he seems, [[spoiler: making a perfectly healthy man commit suicide by making him think he has a fatal disease.]]



* NoOSHACompliance: Joe's workplace is an office inside an industrial factory with large pipes and open flames all over the place. Before leaving on his last day, he's inspired to open the dangerous-looking "main valve," only to be disappointed whe nothign happens.

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* NoOSHACompliance: Joe's workplace is an office inside an industrial factory with large pipes and open flames all over the place. Before leaving on his last day, he's inspired to open the dangerous-looking "main valve," only to be disappointed whe nothign when nothing happens.
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* FamousLastWords:
-->'''Joe''': I want you to listen, Patricia, because these are my last words: I gotta be brave. I gotta jump in.
** Patricia says she has last words too when she decides to jump with him, but she can't think of anything to say. She does come up with her own last words when Joe becomes frustrated that Patricia won't save herself.
--->'''Patricia:''' Nobody knows anything, Joe. We'll take this leap, and we'll see. We'll jump, and we'll see. That's life, right?
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* MeanBoss: Mr. Waturi.

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* MeanBoss: Mr. Waturi. Where to start. He's ''constantly'' yelling on the phone, he gives Joe grief about going to the doctor, he doesn't allow Joe to have a decorative lamp on his desk, he's just an overall bastard.
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The January Man came *before* this film


A notorious flop when it was released in 1990, but in the years since it's been VindicatedByHistory to some extent. Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, who would have to wait 18 years for his next directing gig, the film adaptation of his UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning play ''Theatre/{{Doubt}}''.[[note]]His follow up ''Film/TheJanuaryMan'' didn't help, either.[[/note]]

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A notorious flop when it was released in 1990, but in the years since it's been VindicatedByHistory to some extent. Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, who would have to wait 18 years for his next directing gig, the film adaptation of his UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning play ''Theatre/{{Doubt}}''.[[note]]His follow up ''Film/TheJanuaryMan'' didn't help, either.[[/note]]
''Theatre/{{Doubt}}''.
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A 1990 RomanticComedy starring Creator/TomHanks and Creator/MegRyan (their first screen pairing, followed by ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'' and ''Film/YouveGotMail'').

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A 1990 RomanticComedy film starring Creator/TomHanks and Creator/MegRyan (their in their first of three screen pairing, followed pairings (followed by ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'' and ''Film/YouveGotMail'').
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Meg Ryan plays [[YouLookFamiliar three different parts]]: the BadBoss's mousy secretary [=DeDe=], Graynamore's flighty daughter Anjelica, and Graynamore's other daughter, the free-spirited Patricia, who has a yacht and pilots Joe to the island.

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Meg Ryan plays [[YouLookFamiliar three different parts]]: the BadBoss's mousy secretary [=DeDe=], Graynamore's flighty daughter Anjelica, and Graynamore's other daughter, the free-spirited Patricia, who has a yacht and pilots Joe to the island.
island. Creator/DanHedaya plays Mr. Waturi, the BadBoss. Creator/AbeVigoda, naturally, plays the chief of the Waponis.
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MsFanservice: Meg Ryan, of course. Not as much with her role as DeDe (who is attractive in her own way), but as Anjelica and Patricia, she wears some quite attractive and revealing outfits.

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* MsFanservice: Meg Ryan, of course. Not as much with her role as DeDe [=DeDe=] (who is attractive in her own way), but as Anjelica and Patricia, she wears some quite attractive and revealing outfits.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Joe trying to save a single flower sticking out of the pavement on his way to work neatly establishes both his fundamental helplessness and his ultimate decency.
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MsFanservice: Meg Ryan, of course. Not as much with her role as DeDe (who is attractive in her own way), but as Anjelica and Patricia, she wears some quite attractive and revealing outfits.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: A rare self-pointed out version: when Joe finally tells Patricia that he's going to die of a "brain cloud" in the finale, Patricia starts to laugh and asks what a brain cloud is and Joe starts trying to explain before pausing (because he doesn't know, either) and saying aloud that he should have tried to get a second opinion (which probably would have stopped the plot dead in its tracks, barring Graynamore paying off ''that'' doctor as well). Patricia then reiterates that a disease with such a silly name is probably fake and he should have.

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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: A rare self-pointed out version: when When Joe finally tells Patricia that he's going to die of a "brain cloud" in the finale, Patricia starts to laugh and asks what a brain cloud is and Joe starts trying to explain before pausing (because he doesn't know, either) and saying aloud that he should have tried to get a second opinion (which probably would have stopped the plot dead in its tracks, barring Graynamore paying off ''that'' doctor as well). Patricia then reiterates that a disease with such a silly name is probably fake and he should have.
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* {{Bathos}}: The whole movie smoothly flows between silly jokes and genuine MagicalRealism sweetness, often one right after the other. Even the premise qualifies: it's a thoughtful romantic drama about a terminally ill man trying to find love and contentment in his last few months of life before he completes his final obligation - [[AppeaseTheVolcanoGod jumping into a volcano.]]
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* BigDamnKiss: Joe and Patricia get an appropriately dramatic one during the typhoon, unfortunately the moment is [[MomentKiller rather severely ruined]] when a swinging boom knocks Patricia overboard.
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* {{Anticlimax}}: At Joe's work, there is a large pipe with a massive wheel that has a sign that says "Do Not Close Valve" Joe decides to turn it after he finds out he's dying. Nothing happens, much to his disappointment.

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* {{Anticlimax}}: At Joe's work, there is a large pipe with a massive wheel that has a sign that says "Do Not Close Valve" Valve." Joe decides to turn it after he finds out he's dying. Nothing happens, much to his disappointment.



* WackyWaysideTribe: The Waponis love orange soda, and are a mix of Polynesian, Jewish, and Roman,a dn Celtic culture.

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* WackyWaysideTribe: The Waponis love orange soda, and are a mix of Polynesian, Jewish, and Roman,a dn Roman, and Celtic culture.
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* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Joe quits after finding out he has a terminal disease, and gives the above TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
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* {{Unobtainium}}: Boobaroo, the rare mineral that is a tremendous superconductor. Though since the properties of the material are never relevant to the movie's plot, it's more of a {{Macguffin}} - it could have been a normal precious metal, gems, anything like that. It just had to be something so incredibly rare and valuable that Graynamore couldn't get it himself through conventional means.

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* {{Unobtainium}}: Boobaroo, the rare mineral that is a tremendous superconductor. Though since the properties of the material are never relevant to the movie's plot, it's more of a {{Macguffin}} - it could have been a normal precious metal, gems, anything like that. It just had to be something so incredibly rare and valuable that Graynamore couldn't get it himself through conventional means.
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* {{Unobtainium}}: Boobaroo, the rare mineral that is a tremendous superconductor. Though since the properties of the material are never relevant to the movie's plot, it's more of a {{Macguffin}} - it could have been a normal precious metal, gems, anything like that.

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* {{Unobtainium}}: Boobaroo, the rare mineral that is a tremendous superconductor. Though since the properties of the material are never relevant to the movie's plot, it's more of a {{Macguffin}} - it could have been a normal precious metal, gems, anything like that. It just had to be something so incredibly rare and valuable that Graynamore couldn't get it himself through conventional means.

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