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Release Date: 1997

Cast: Elizabeth Hoffman, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan, Tzi Ma, Pierce Brosnan, Kirk Trutner, Arabella Field, Jeremy Foley, Grant Heslov, Bill Bolender, Jamie Renée Smith

Categories: Movies, Disaster, Action, Doomsday Film, Action/Adventure, Thriller, Adventure

Dante's Peak is a 1997 disaster film directed by Roger Donaldson, written by Leslie Bohem, and starring Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton and Charles Hallahan. The film portrays the effect of a volcano erupting near a small town in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The film is loosely based on the real life volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. It was released a few months before Volcano and eventually received wider success. It has also been recognized for being more scientifically accurate than Volcano, despite gaining lower ratings. Dante's Peak was also one of... MORE

Dante's Peak is a 1997 disaster film directed by Roger Donaldson, written by Leslie Bohem, and starring Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton and Charles Hallahan. The film portrays the effect of a volcano erupting near a small town in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The film is loosely based on the real life volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. It was released a few months before Volcano and eventually received wider success. It has also been recognized for being more scientifically accurate than Volcano, despite gaining lower ratings. Dante's Peak was also one of Hallahan's last movie roles (the other being The Pest, which came out the same week) before he died of a heart attack nine months after its release. Set in the fictional town of Dante's Peak, Washington, located in the northern Cascade Mountains, the film is somewhat based on the real-life eruptions of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, Mount St. Helens in 1980 and Mount Pinatubo in 1991. The film begins with the eruption of an unnamed volcano in Colombia during which volcanologist Dr. Harry Dalton’s (Brosnan) fiancée, Marianne (Walker Brandt), is killed as the couple tries to evacuate. Four years later, LESS