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JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO
Film 1990. Written by John Patrick Shanley. Directed by John Patrick Shanley. Starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Abe Vigoda, Dan Hedaya, Barry McGovern, Ossie Davis.

Source Features: BBB (9) MAP (3) OTHER (22) THEMES (1)

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BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU

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Achi

Achi
Parent company of American Panascope, the company where Joe works.

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American Panascope

Industrial Companies

American Panascope
Company where Joe works as an advertising librarian, manufacturer of petroleum jelly, artificial testicles and surgical tools including a rectal probe.

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Dr. Ellison

Dr. Ellison
Joe's doctor Dr. Ellison informs him that he has an incurable and very rare brain cloud - a black fog of tissue running down the center of his brain that will kill him in six months.

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Fire in Paradise

Fire in Paradise
Restaurant where Joe takes DeDe after quitting his job.

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Beverage Products

Jump Soda
Orange soda that the Waponis drink.

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Neil's Whole Taxi

Neil's Whole Taxi
Taxi cab.

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Rectal Probe

Technology Products

Medical Devices

Rectal Probe
Product made by American Panascope, the company where Joe works.

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The Tweedle Dee

The Tweedle Dee
One of two yachts owned by Samuel Graynamore - the other is the Tweedle Dum. Graynamore offers his daughter Patricia the Tweedle Dee to take Joe to Waponi Woo.

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The Tweedle Dum

The Tweedle Dum
One of two yachts owned by Samuel Graynamore - the other is the Tweedle Dum. Graynamore offers his daughter Patricia the Tweedle Dee to take Joe to Waponi Woo.

MAKE BELIEVE MAP

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The Big Woo

The Big Woo
Volcano on the island of Waponi Woo.

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Medical League Building

Medical League Building
Joe's doctor Dr. Ellison's office is in the Medical League Building, Long Island City Branch.

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Geographic Areas

Waponi Woo
Island whose name means "little island with a big volcano". In order to gain access to deposits of the bubaru - a mineral needed to manufacture semiconductors - wealthy industrialist Samuel Graynamore offers to pay for whatever Joe wants to enjoy his final days, as long as he jumps into a volcano on the tiny Pacific island of Waponi Woo to appease the fire god.

OTHER

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Angelica
Angelica: I have no response to that.

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Angelica
Angelica: I am completely untrustworthy... I'm a flibbertigibbet.

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Brain Cloud

Medical Conditions

Brain Cloud
Joe's doctor Dr. Ellison informs him that he has an incurable and very rare brain cloud - a black fog of tissue running down the center of his brain that will kill him in six months.

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Bubaru
In order to gain access to deposits of the bubaru - a mineral needed to manufacture semiconductors - wealthy industrialist Samuel Graynamore offers to pay for whatever Joe wants to enjoy his final days, as long as he jumps into a volcano on the tiny Pacific island of Waponi Woo to appease the fire god.

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Dr. Ellison

Dr. Ellison
Dr. Ellison: You have some time left, Mr. Banks. You have some life left. My advice to you is: live it well.

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Joe Banks
Joe Banks: Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life.

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Joe Banks
Joe Banks: You look terrible, Mr. Waturi. You look like a bag of shit stuffed in a cheap suit.

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Joe Banks
Joe Banks: I saw the moon when we where out there on the ocean. Shining down on everything. I've been miserable for so long. Years of my life wasted. For you. Been a long time coming here to met you. A long time, on a crooked road.

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Joe Banks
Joe Banks: I bribed them to sing a song that would drive us insane and make our hearts swell and burst.

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Joe Banks
Joe Banks: I tell you one thing, though. Wherever we go, whatever we do, we're gonna take this luggage with us!

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Joe Banks
Joe Banks: Who am I? That's the real question, isn't it? Who - who am I? Who are you! What other questions are there? What other questions are there, really! You want to understand the universe? Embrace the universe. The door to the universe is you.

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Joe Banks
Joe Banks: Take me to the volcano!

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Marshall
Marshall: They just pay me to drive the limo, sir. I'm not here to tell you who you are.

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Marshall
Marshall: Clothes make the man. I believe that. You say to me you want to go shopping, you want to buy clothes, but you don't know what kind. You leave that hanging in the air, like I'm going to fill in the blank, that to me is like asking me who you are, and I don't know who you are, I don't want to know. It's taken me my whole life to find out who I am, and I'm tired now, you hear what I'm saying?

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Marshall
Marshall: You're coming into focus, kid!

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Patricia
Patricia: My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.

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Patricia
Patricia: Joe, nobody knows anything. We'll take this leap and we'll see. We'll jump and we'll see. That's life!

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Patricia
Patricia: Whither thou goest, I go.

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Patricia
Patricia: Eighteen hundred years ago, a Roman galley with a crew of Jews and Druids, got caught in a huge storm off Carthage. They were swept a thousand miles off course, and ended up on the wrong side of the horn of Africa. Thinking they were returning to Rome, they sailed deep into the South Pacific, and finally ended by colonizing a lightly populated, Polynesian island which they named Waponi Woo. Thus was born the Waponi culture - a mixture of Polynesian, Celtic, Hebrew and Latin influences. The Waponis are known throughout Polynesia as having a peculiar love of orange soda and no sense of direction.

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Samuel Harvey Graynamore

Samuel Harvey Graynamore
Samuel Harvey Graynamore: There's an island in the South Pacific called Waponi Woo. The name means little island with a big volcano. Now, the Waponis are a cheerful people who live a simple existence, fishing in the lagoon, picking fruit. Their one fear is that big volcano. They call it the big Woo. They believe, that an angry fire god in the volcano will sink the island! Unless, once every 100 years he is appeased. It's been 99 years, 11 months and 11 days since the fire god got his propers and the Waponis are scared!

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Waponis Chief

Waponis Chief
Waponis Chief: We are the children of children and we live as we are shown.

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