Dante's Peak Review

Dante's Peak


Release Date: 27th March 1997 - Australia


Production Companies
Universal Pictures (presents)
Pacific Western

Distribution
Universal Pictures Australia


Genre: Adventure/Thriller

Rating: M

Runtime: 109 minutes


Budget: $116,000,000

Box Office Gross: $178,127,760 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary
A volcanologist named Harry Dalton gets sent to the small town of Dante's Peak. It is there he starts investigating some unusual activity on a long-dormant volcano. Dalton's theories are proven correct when the volcano is about to erupt, and it will soon destroy the entire town. Can anyone survive the destructive impact of its fiery inferno?

Cast
Pierce Brosnan - Dr. Harry Dalton
Linda Hamilton - Rachel Wando
Charles Hallahan - Dr. Paul

Dreyfus
Elizabeth Hoffman - Ruth
Jamie Renee Smith - Lauren Wando
Jeremy Foley - Graham Wando
Grant Heslov - Greg
Kirk Trutner - Terry
Arabella Field - Nancy
Tzi Ma - Stan

Brian Reddy - Les Worrell

Lee Garlington - Dr. Jane Fox

Bill Bolender - Sheriff Turner

Carole Androsky - Mary Kelly

Peter Jason - Norman Gates

Jeffrey L. Ward - Jack Collins

Tim Haldeman - Elliot Blair

Walker Brandt - Marianne

Hansford Rowe - Warren Cluster

Susie Spear Purcell - Karen Narlington

David Lipper - Hot Springs Man

Heather Stephens - Hot Springs Woman

R.J. Burns - Man at Helicopter

Tammy L. Smith - Town Meeting Woman

Christopher Murray - Pilot

Justin Williams - Paramedic

Donna Ostrom - Road Block Newsperson

Tom Magnuson - Road Block Newsperson

Marilyn Leubner - Babysitter

Ed Stone - Technician

Crew
Director - Roger Donaldson
Writer - Leslie Bohem

Associate Producer/Second Unit Director -

Geoff Murphy
Executive Producer - Ilona Herzberg
Producers - Gale Anne Hurd
and Joseph Singer
Co-Producer - Marliese Schneider
Volcanology Advisors - David H. Harlow,

John P. Lockwood and Norman MacLeod

Casting Directors - Allison Cowitt

and Mike Fenton

Production Designer/Aerial Unit Director -

J. Dennis Washington

Art Directors - Francis J. Pezza

and Thomas T. Taylor

Set Decorator - Marvin March
Costume Designer - Isis Mussenden

Makeup Department Head - Kenny Myers
Director of Photography - Andrzej Bartkowiak

Director of Photography: Second Unit -

Raymond Stella

First Assistant Camera: Second Unit -

Clyde E. Bryan and Larry D. Davis

Unit Production Manager - Marie Cantin

Unit Production Manager: Second Unit -

David Womark

First Assistant Director - David Sardi

Second Assistant Director - Maggie Murphy

Second Second Assistant Directors -

L. David Silva and Christina Stauffer

Location Manager: Second Unit - Mike Fantasia

Aerial Coordinator - Cliff Fleming

Stunt Coordinator - R.A. Rondell

Stunt Coordinators: Second Unit - Troy Brown,

Jeff Imada and Michael Runyard

Assistant Stunt Coordinator - Thomas Robinson Harper

Special Effects Coordinator - Roy Arbogast
Special Effects Supervisors: Digital Domain -

Dean W. Miller and Richard Stutsman

Visual Effects Supervisor - Pat McClung

Visual Effects Producer - Lori J. Nelson

Graphics Supervisor: BFTRE - Van Ling

Directors of Photography: Digital Domain -

Tony Cutrono, Christopher Duddy,

Les Bernstein, Philipp Timme and

David R. Hardberger

Lava Development Supervisor: Digital Domain -

Dennis Blakey

R&D Lava Development: Digital Domain -

Matthew E. Butler and John Michael Courte
Film Editors - Conrad Buff IV,
Tina Hirsch and Howard E. Smith

Sound Designer/Editor (Uncredited) -

Michael Giesler

Sound Designer - Geoffrey G. Rubay

Supervising Sound Editors - Richard L. Anderson

and George Simpson

Sound Effects Editors - Ezra Dweck,

Julia Evershade, Donald Flick, Avram D. Gold,

Charlotte Haupt, Elliott Koretz, Eric Lindenmann,

Marvin Walowitz and David Lewis Yewdall

Sound Mixer - David Macmillan

Additional Sound Mixers - Gary Gegan,

Steve Pederson and Brad Sherman

Re-Recording Mixers - Ron Bartlett,

Chris Jenkins and Mark Smith

Composer: Theme Music - James Newton Howard
Music - John Frizzell

Review
DANTE'S PEAK is a mind-blowing spectacle from start to finish. Director Roger Donaldson has created a very realistic natural disaster movie. Part of the movie's appeal is the suspense, thinking if the main characters would escape danger. It is promoted as being scientifically accurate and is close to how a disaster of this proportion would unfold and affect the lives of hundreds of people. The film had excellent acting performances by Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton and amazing visual effects. It's a shame that it didn't get nominated for an Oscar.

DANTE'S PEAK is for people who have learned about or studied volcanoes, as they will appreciate the realism of this motion picture.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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