Joe Versus the Volcano is a 1990 American
romantic comedy film written and directed by
John Patrick Shanley and starring
Tom Hanks and
Meg Ryan. Hanks plays a man who, after being told he is dying of a rare disease, accepts a financial offer to travel to a South Pacific island and throw himself into a volcano on behalf of the superstitious natives. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the woman taking him there.