Dante's Peak

February. 07,1997      PG-13
Rating:
6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, Harry, the mayor and the townspeople find themselves fighting for their lives amid a catastrophic nightmare.

Pierce Brosnan as  Harry Dalton
Linda Hamilton as  Rachel Wando
Arabella Field as  Nancy
Jamie Renée Smith as  Lauren Wando
Jeremy Foley as  Graham Wando
Elizabeth Hoffman as  Ruth
Charles Hallahan as  Paul Dreyfus
Grant Heslov as  Greg
Kirk Trutner as  Terry Furlong
Tzi Ma as  Stan

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Reviews

Cebalord
1997/02/07

Very best movie i ever watch

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InformationRap
1997/02/08

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Frances Chung
1997/02/09

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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Lucia Ayala
1997/02/10

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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kzg-79866
1997/02/11

I remember when my dad introduced me to 1990s disaster classics. In my early childhood, I would watch nothing other than "Volcano;" now that I'm a little older, I realize that "Volcano" is too unrealistic and predictable. That's why I moved on to "Dante's Peak.""Dante's Peak" is a mind-blowing state-of-the-art disaster film from Universal Studios, Digital Domain, and CIS Hollywood. In my point of view, this film is much more realistic and slightly more scientifically accurate (composite volcanoes do not eject fast-moving, low-viscosity lava) Although a lot of perspectives have their ups and downs, "Dante's Peak" is a good film, and it somewhat keeps the audience in suspense of what would happen next.

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sddavis63
1997/02/12

What you get from "Dante's Peak" is a pretty typical disaster movie that adds little to that broad "genre." Dante's Peak is a little town in the state of Washington that's nestled against a mountain. It's celebrating the fact that it's been named the "Second Best Place to Live In The United States With A Population Under 20,000." They'll need a huge plaque for the town hall just to get all the words on it. Well, actually they won't. Because there's not going to be a town hall - or a town - for much longer. It turns out that the mountain is a volcano that's getting ready to blow its top.The main characters are Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan) - a geologist with the US Geological Survey who realizes that the mountains about to explode - and Rachel Wando (Linda Hamilton) - the mayor of the town. The big question is whether to prepare the town for evacuation. There's just been a company that's made a huge investment, and evacuating because of a potential volcanic eruption won't look very good. Profits before safety, you know - kind of like "Jaws" and other movies. The movie pushes the typical buttons. Rachel has a couple of kids who do something stupid and have to be saved and an ornery mother in law who won't take advice and there's a cute dog too. I was actually more worried about poor Roughy than anyone else in this.Special effects were OK. Performances were OK. Story was typical for a disaster film, although it seemed a little bit long. It's not better or worse than most of them. I wouldn't recommend going out of your way to watch it, but it works if you have some time to kill. (5/10)

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Nadine Salakov
1997/02/13

Dante's Peak is now 20 years old and is still a decent disaster flick. Everything is fine with this movie, except for the tired romance scenario, it is rare for an on screen man and woman to be just friends, this film would have been perfect for that, we don't see them in a full- on relationship where they're getting engaged and him adopting her kids, the story was about surviving the out of control volcano, so there really was no need for that romance plot as it didn't go anywhere. It would have been refreshing if the writers had the two main characters be just friends.

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aball-71891
1997/02/14

Dante's Peak I am a Year 10 student who recently watched Dante Peak ,I really enjoyed this movie as I found it was very adventurous ,I thought it was very gory in scenes which i didn't enjoy. I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone. In one scene it thought it was quite unrealistic. The plot of the movie was very accurate and detailed. The movie started off with the main character Harry who studied Volcanoes with his girlfriend. They were in Central America, the town they were staying at was below a volcano unfortunately the volcano erupted and a pyroclast killed his girlfriend by hitting her on the head. Paul (Harry's Boss) sends him to Dante's Peak. He meets the Mayor of the town (Rachel) and her two children (Lauren and Graham). Rachel takes Harry and the children up the mountain to investigate if the volcano is active or not. While they are up in the mountains the children discover two dead squirrels, Harry then finds two dead trees beside a river. The children decide that they want to go see their Grandmother, and she decides to take them for a swim in a hot spring. As they arrive and get ready to jump in they discover two dead hikers that have been burned while swimming in the hot spring. Harry decides to put the town on alert but Paul (his boss) refuses as it may affect money and tourism. U.S.G.S go into the crater with a helicopter and a robotic spider while they are up in the crater with the spider a small tremor occurs and one of Harry's colleagues falls and breaks his leg. Harry then notices that the tap water has turned orange/brown colour. The next day he decides to call a town meeting, during the meeting an earthquakes hits and everyone panics, soon after the earthquake the volcano erupts and everyone tries to escape. MAYHEM! Graham and Lauren drive to their Grandmothers house and she refused to come down from the mountain. Rachel and Harry go to save the children and their grandmother. They find a boat to travel down the river in as it would be a lot quicker. The propeller gets eaten by the SO2 in the water so the grandmother gets out of the boat for the last few meters to push. The acid in the water disintegrates her legs and she dies. Harry, Rachel and her kids steal a truck, the then come across a path were the lava as spilled over and they need to get across it, they take a chance and drive over it. At the other side the dog Ruffy is sitting on a rock.They then get back to the town everyone has fled and collect the E.L.F. An ash cloud starts coming fast and start at them they then ram the ruck into a mine where graham used to play.

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