Under the Volcano (movie)
- User score: 6.5
- Production country: Mexico, United States of America
- Producer: John Huston
- Production companies: Conacite Uno, Ithaca, Universal Pictures
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 6/12/1984
- Run time: 112 min.
Movie description
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
