Under the Volcano

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Under the Volcano is a 1984 drama movie directed by John Huston. It stars Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset and Anthony Andrews. It runs 1h 52m and is rated R. TMDB users rate it 6.6 out of 10. Streaming in the US on Max and Criterion Channel.

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.