Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.
Joe Versus the Volcano is of 1 hour(s) and 42 minute(s). It is Produced By: Amblin Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures. It was released on 1990-03-09. It has the tagline: An average Joe. An adventurous comedy. It has an average vote of 5.718 on TMDB.
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