Joe Versus the Volcano

Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) is an offbeat comedy with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan you can watch online on iFILM. A burnt-out hypochondriac learns he has six months left to live — and finally decides to spend them on something worth doing.

Joe Banks has wasted years under flickering fluorescent lights, cataloguing imaginary ailments at a soul-crushing job. The diagnosis flips a switch. A mysterious tycoon offers him a deal: live like a king for a few weeks, then leap into an active volcano on a Pacific island to appease the locals' fire god. On the voyage out, Joe meets Patricia, and for the first time in ages he actually wants to stay alive.

This is the only film ever directed by playwright John Patrick Shanley, who wrote Moonstruck. Meg Ryan plays three different women, and the production builds a strange, storybook world of glowing luggage and surreal sets. A box-office flop in its day that slowly grew into a cult favorite. A peculiar grown-up fairy tale — not for everyone, but quietly beloved by those it wins over. Stream Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) online on iFILM.