Dante's Peak
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Dante's Peak is a 1997 action-adventure film starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton. It portrays the effect of a volcano erupting in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. It was released a few months before Volcano, another movie of the same disaster genre.
The film was actually credited by geologists for portraying the geological activities in the film fairly accurately.
The movie is set in the fictional town of Dante's Peak, Washington in the Cascade Range but was actually filmed in Wallace, Idaho, with the image of the volcano superimposed over the footage of the town (Wallace does not have a real volcano nearby.) Based somewhat on the real-life eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 and the active status of other volcanoes in the Cascade range such as Mount Rainier, Dante's Peak depicts the efforts of a geologist to warn the townspeople about the impending eruption, and the subsequent efforts to rescue victims of the volcano including the family of the town's mayor.
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