Dante's Peak, starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton, was released February 7, 1997. The story is about a fictional, dormant volcano, Dante's Peak, Washington, showing signs of erupting. The eruptions threaten the picturesque town of the same name.
Brosnan is a US geologist sent to assess the volcano to determine if it is preparing to erupt. Hamilton plays the mayor/coffee shop owner in town.
Dante's Peak didn't receive favorable reviews although it was better at the box office than Volcano, released a couple of months later. Its visual effects were not nominated for an Academy Award because it had some stiff competition with Jurassic Park: The Lost World and Titanic, which won the award.
