Director(s): John Patrick Shanley

Rating & Run Time: (PG) 1 hr. 42 min.

Release Year: 1990

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan’s perfect chemistry is on a multifaceted display in this weird, stylish, and poignant comedy about following your heart in the face of imminent doom. When Joe, (Hanks), learns he’s the unfortunate victim of a mysterious medical “brain cloud”, he becomes the prime candidate for an absurd suicide quest to “save” a mineral-rich (and hard-to-please) indigenous population, whose tribal rites demand a brave soul to jump into their local volcano to appease the lava spewing behemoth. Along the way he meets three women, (all played by Ryan), who enlighten him on themes of self-awareness, capitalist obsessions, and, ultimately, love!