John Patrick Shanley

The director John Patrick Shanley has directed one other movie, the 1990 Tom Hanks vehicle Joe Versus The Volcano (no, I don't remember The Volcano either).

Tom Hanks

Though Bruce passed Bruce's fondness for movies on to Bruce's children, none of Bruce's children ever understood Bruce's fondness for Tom Hanks’ “Joe Versus the Volcano”.

by David Gordon Green

Directed by David Gordon Green, “Joe” brings Academy Award

the story of Joe Banks (), Tom Hanksa young man disillusioned with Tom Hanks's dull, uneventful life

Of their roughly 240 species ... Joe Versus the Volcano is the story of Joe Banks (Tom Hanks), a young man disillusioned with Tom Hanks's dull, uneventful life.

The best Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan films

The best Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan films is obviously Joe versus The Volcano.

David Gordon Green, who comes from my hometown and who obviously has a feel for and an understanding for the type of rural community that most film directors either ignore or treat with the usual yankee combination of condescension, fear, and loathing

Joe was directed by David Gordon Green, who comes from my hometown and who obviously has a feel for and an understanding for the type of rural community that most film directors either ignore or treat with the usual yankee combination of condescension, fear, and loathing.

Visual Effects Art Director

Visual Effects Art Director Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) ....

my favourite of the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan trilogy

I concur with you and most other people that Mail' is a better film than Sleepless' although Joe Versus The Volcano is my favourite of the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan trilogy.

Shanley

But Shanley has movie experience: Shanley won an Oscar for the Moonstruck script and directed Joe Versus the Volcano.

Robert Rodriguez

Apparently, Robert Rodriguez works mostly in theater and has won several awards for Robert Rodriguez's one-man Samuel Beckett shows; that may well be how Robert Rodriguez wound up in Joe Versus The Volcano, since Shanley was a renowned New York playwright before Robert Rodriguez began writing movies.

a film from Amblin Entertainment

Since Joe Versus The Volcano is a film from Amblin Entertainment, Amblin Entertainment was executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall.

which Savage also directed

Savage has written extensively for TV and film, and Savage's credits include the teleplay for Live from Baghdad and screenplays for Congo, Alive, Five Corners, Joe Versus the Volcano (which Savage also directed), and Moonstruck, for which Savage won an Academy Award for original screenplay.

Mick Jackson

Everyone Says I Love You, and Mick Jackson directed Volcano.

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While there, Director Richard Donner worked on films including “Volcano,” starring Tommy Lee Jones and the hit romantic comedy

by John G. Avildsen, the man who gave us Rocky and The Karate Kid for Cannon Films in 1970

Directed by John G. Avildsen, the man who gave us Rocky and The Karate Kid for Cannon Films in 1970, Joe begins with a scene in which a junkie forces Joe's girlfriend, Melissa Compton (a young Susan Sarandon in a young Susan Sarandon's big screen debut!), to get high with a young Susan Sarandon .

by D.J. Caruso

Joe being directed by D.J. Caruso, with a writers room being led by Akiva Goldsman.

by Richard Brooks

Joe also approved in the dynamic nature of the script and directing by Richard Brooks stating that 'Brooks never stops to explain anything, never lingers over a plot, never bores us with lectures and explanations.

by Green (the low budget independent comedy Prince Avalanche, etc) who turns an unflinching eye on the hardscrabble life style of some of Cage's down and out characters

Adapted from the novel written by Larry Brown, Joe is a gritty drama dealing with the search for redemption, masculinity, family, and what it means to be a man, and has been directed in nonjudgmental and compassionate fashion by Green (the low budget independent comedy Prince Avalanche, etc) who turns an unflinching eye on the hardscrabble life style of some of Cage's down and out characters.

in films by Francis Ford Coppola,

Stateside, Joe was directed in films by Francis Ford Coppola, John Waters, and Steven Soderbergh.

about Hypochondriac Joe Banks

Movie Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) tell story about Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out Tom Hankshas six months to live, quits Tom Hanks's dead end job, musters the courage to ask Tom Hanks's co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.