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| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 6 May 1996 - 31 August 1996 |
| Budget: | USD 116,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 67,155,742 USD (8 June 1997) UK - 4,031,557 GBP (13 April 1997) Worldwide - 93,900,000 USD (except USA) Italy - 3,659,541,000 ITL (4 May 1997) |
| Plot: | A vulcanologist arrives at a countryside named Dante's Peak after his boss instructs him to investigate the possibility of a dormant volcano (the Dante's Peak) getting active again in that region. As story progresses, we see that Dalton is getting increasingly convinced that the volcano might blow up but his boss is reluctant to declare an emergency in the city yet (because of possibility that if the volcano finally does never erupt, the real estate prices will plummet anyway and the city might loose a huge financial investment deal). Unfortunately, the common residents of the area know nothing about it until very late. Finally, when Dante's Peak does erupt, the city panics, some does not survive the catastrophe, including Dalton's boss and for Dalton and the mayor of the city (who falls in love with Dalton) and her children, it becomes a race against the pyroclastic cloud to save their own lives. |
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| "Blue Moon Revisited" Written by Richard Rodgers , Lorenz Hart, Margo Timmins, Michael Timmins Performed by Cowboy Junkies Courtesy of the RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment |
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Continuity: The motel clerk is wearing glasses only when shown from behind. Fact errors: Cascade Range volcanoes do not typically erupt flowing basaltic (free-flowing) lava. They certainly do not simultaneously erupt pyroclastic and basaltic flows as depicted. Continuity: Harry's truck emerges from the river completely dry. Continuity: The passenger side window is destroyed when the car hits Harry's truck in the river, yet in all subsequent scenes, it's there. Continuity: During the credits, Pierce Brosnan's name is misspelled at the line, "Mr. Bronson's Driver" Continuity: Dante's Peak itself occasionally disappears in some brief shots. Continuity: When Terry is in the hospital with a broken leg, Greg is doodling on his cast. In a later shot Terry's cast is clean. Fact errors: The boat engine was water-cooled by taking in water from the lake and running it through the engine. The acid in the lake would have caused the engine to seize very quickly. Continuity: The helicopter crashes into the ground nose-down and continues moving for several feet after impact, which should indicate that the cabin is being crushed; we also see parts flying off the rotor. But a moment later, it rises again in a manner completely unlike the way the wreckage might bounce, more the way it would if was still under power; and we see that the cabin is still intact. Revealing mistakes: After the town hall meeting, people are running past the trophy case when the quake starts. Everything is shaking and falling except the trophies which stay perfectly still in the cabinet. SYNC: In the establishing shot of the grandmother's cabin, we hear a chorus of peeping in the sound effects mix. These are small frogs often called "spring peepers" and they will usually only sing after sunset, not in the middle of the day as depicted here. Revealing mistakes: Tremors strong enough to reduce buildings to rubble hit the town, but the trees lining the sidewalk remain motionless. Continuity: When the crew is unloading SpiderLegs in the parking lot, Greg has a highly noticeable case of five o'clock shadow. Less than a minute later, when he is inside directing SpiderLegs remotely, he is clean-shaven. Fact errors: When Harry and Terry are measuring the concentration of sulfur dioxide in the caldera, the instrument probe is protruding out the open cabin door into the helicopter downwash. Sulfur dioxide is more than twice as dense as air; it would be highly unlikely that this technique would provide any meaningful results. Continuity: In one of the last scenes as Harry is racing the truck down the streets of the deserted town trying to outrun the pyroclastic flow, the streets are obviously covered with at least a foot of ash, and yet the truck leaves no tracks, or stirs up any ash, as it goes by. Fact errors: In one of the scenes, the pick-up truck was trying to outrun the pyroclastic cloud. A pyroclastic cloud moves at 140kmh and could not possibly be outrun by a truck with no tyres. Continuity: Cars in front of and behind Harry's truck leading up to the one-lane bridge during the evacuation. Continuity: The one-lane bridge leading out of town is wide enough to fit two cars side-by-side during the evacuation, yet when the vulcanologists are fleeing in the Humvees and USGS van later, it is barely wide enough for one vehicle. Revealing mistakes: When part of the freeway collapses, cars on the section still standing do not move, for no reason. Continuity: The blue pickup is hit twice on the freeway onramp. Continuity: A red Ford Taurus parked outside the high school is later seen on the freeway onramp before it collapses. As it does, it is suddenly just driving onto the onramp. Continuity: While driving around the abandoned town shortly before the volcano erupts, Harry's truck passes the same overturned police car four times. Continuity: A station wagon is clipped by a black Dodge on the freeway onramp, but when the onramp collapses in the next shot, the station wagon has disappeared and other cars that were far behind it are visible. Continuity: The red van that Paul is driving onto the bridge when they are evacuating the town has no vent windows, yet when Paul is stuck on the bridge, and it begins to overturn, the same van that he was driving can be seen to have vent windows. Fact errors: When Harry drives the green pick-up truck over the thinly crusted lava flow, the truck comes off the flow with nothing more than four flat tires and a charred bottom. In reality, lava is capable of temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which would have melted the undercarriage and left them trapped. Continuity: When the couple go into the hot spring, the woman hangs her shorts on the 'sign'. But when Harry, Linda, grandma and the kids come there the shorts are gone. Fact errors: After the eruption (following the meeting in the school) we see many broken cables flowing around. In reality, that would have short circuited the town's electrical system and the whole town would have gone dark. Continuity: When the volcano had started erupting, Harry and Rachel rushed back to her place in his truck to get her kids. The both of them run into her house and she found the letter from the kids. They run back out to the truck and the truck's headlights are on. They're standard headlights, which appear yellow in color. They leave and find the bridge is jammed with traffic and Harry decides to cross the river. In the shot of them crossing the road and going down the bank towards the river, not only are all the truck's lights on - not just the headlights - but they're very bright, white, possibly HID headlights until the truck's demise. Continuity: Just before the freeway collapses we see a window from the city hall shatter, but when the Chevy Blazer falls of the on ramp we see that the window is intact. Continuity: In one shot we see a realty sign collapse off an office building, however in the previous shot as Harry and Linda are approaching the structure, the sign has already collapsed. Continuity: Just before the main eruption Harry turns left on what is supposed to be Bank Street. In the shot he is actually turning right on Cedar Street. Revealing mistakes: When the freeway collapses, all of the vehicles very obviously have no occupants. This is because all the cars are in reality scale models, which are used several times to film stunts without using CGI. FAIR: When they go to save the grandmother, just before the lava comes bursting through the wall, the grandmother has a garbage bag in her hands. When the lava breaks through, she appears to drop the bag and starts running. Then they show the whole family outside, and the bag is back in the grandmother's hands, with no time for her to have picked it up. In fact it was Mayor Wando who dropped her bag; she was standing in front of the grandmother, making it appear that she dropped hers. FAIR: The Grandmother is badly burned when she swims across the acidic lake a short distance, although Pierce Brosnan seems unaffected despite rowing with his coat-covered hand for about 5 minutes. Fact errors: Though, it is true that volcanic activity can turn lakes and other bodies of water around the volcano acidic. But, the acid would not burn through the boat as quickly as depicted in the movie. Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Harry, Rachel, and the kids are racing from the volcano toward Graham's hideout, a faint face can be seen in the cloud of dust when the camera cuts back toward the erupting volcano. Fact errors: When Dante's Peak explodes, it generates a pyroclastic flow which Harry barely outruns with a truck with no tires. This would not be possible, as pyroclastic flows are capable of traveling at over 100 MPH, which would overtake them long before they can reach the mines. Revealing mistakes: When Harry opens the tap in Paul's room the water is instantly dirty. You would expect some clean water until the dirty water runs through the pipe. |
Quotes
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Harry Dalton: I've always been better at feeling out volcanoes than people and politics. Harry Dalton: Her name was Marianne. We worked together. She loved volcanoes. Harry Dalton: I move around a lot: Colombia, Guatemala, the Philippines, Mexico, New Zealand, New Guinea... wherever there's a volcano with an attitude. Nancy: Why look at the computer when you can look at the real thing? Paul Dreyfus: Harry, listen... for what it's worth... you were right and I was wrong. Greg: It's coffee time! Coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee! Cappuccino, java, YES! Stan: Isn't this beautiful, nestled all nice and cozy right up against the mountain? Nancy: Yeah, just like Pompeii. Rachel: A man who looks at a rock must have a lot on his mind. Harry Dalton: Get the hell out of there now, before it's too late! [slight tremor] Terry, USGS Crew: Did anybody feel that? [large tremor throws them about] Paul Dreyfus: I felt that. [in the river] Rachel: Harry, you see that car coming at us? Harry Dalton: I see it. Terry, USGS Crew: I have great taste in women! When have I ever steered you wrong? Harry Dalton: What about Astrid? Terry, USGS Crew: What about Astrid? I thought the two of you would have a lot in common. She said she was into rocks. Harry Dalton: Crystals, Terry. Crystals. Not rocks. Crystals. Paul Dreyfus: We're picking up some activity around Dante's Peak. Harry Dalton: This is a joke right? Dante's Peak? Terry, USGS Crew: The doctor said I can get out of the hospital as soon as they make sure that my head's OK. Nancy: OK, see you in 10 years man! Terry, USGS Crew: Stan, how long's this light been blinking? Stan: I dunno, a couple of days? Terry, USGS Crew: [realizing that this means Harry is still alive] Thank you NASA! [others look at him quizically] Thank you NASA! Thank You NASA! THANK YOU NASA! Harry Dalton: Ever been deep sea fishing? [the Children nod no] Neither have I. Listen, when we get out of here, we'll go to Florida, and we'll get us a boat, and gather all of the yummy bait that we can possibly get our hands on, then we'll catch us a big, old fat fish. Rachel: Do you have a family? Harry Dalton: No. Rachel: Why not? Harry Dalton: Well, for one thing, I move around alot. Mexico, Alaska, South America, The Philippines, New Guinea, basically where there's a volcano with an attitude. Harry Dalton: My 9th grade science teacher always said that if you put a frog in boiling hot water, it would jump out. But put it in cold water, and heat it up gradually, it would slowly boil to death. Nancy: What's that Harry? Your recipe for frog soup? Harry Dalton: It's my recipe for a disaster. Paul Dreyfus: [during the meeting] Ladies and Gentlemen, I can assure you that there is no immediate danger, I believe that this is not the time to put this town on alert. this type of thing happened with mammoth mountain in 1980. The good thing is, that the mountain didn't go up, but the damage was already done, tourists stopped going to the mountain, real estate values plummeted, and the town nearly went bankrupt. My team and I are going to stay as long as we can, and we are going to monitor every little hiccup that mountain makes, we're gonna bounce off laser beams, to find out of any change in the mountain's shape, and see if there is any increase in gas emissions, we're even gonna send a robot up there to take the darn thing's temperature. So, if the times comes to put this town on alert, "if" the times comes, it will be based on scientific evidence, and not based on somebody's opinion. [looks back at Harry] [Dante's Peak explodes a massive dark grey cloud] Graham Wando: [terrified] What is that? Rachel: [scared] Mum? Rachel: [looks at Harry] What is that? Harry Dalton: *That* is a pyroclastic cloud. Graham Wando: Show us one more trick. Lauren Wando: Maybe one more? Rachel: Maybe Harry's tired. Harry Dalton: [putting down his drink] One more. [last lines] Graham Wando: [getting harnessed on board a helicopter] Did you really mean what you said about taking us fishing? Harry Dalton: [cheerfully] Sure did. Lauren Wando: [happy] That's great! [Harry and Rachel clasp hands] Helicopter Pilot: Are you ready to go? Harry Dalton: Let's go! [the side door slides shut, the Helicopter takes off and flies over the ruins of Dante's Peak] |
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