Volcano

Tommy Lee Jones stars as Mike Roark, a divorced Los Angeles emergency official who takes charge when a volcano grows out of the La Brea Tar Pits. A river of lava flows down Wilshire Boulevard, through the Metro Red Line subway tunnel, and creates a fountain of lava next to the Beverly Center shopping mall in Beverly Hills. The lava destroys one subway train in the Red Line, kills the Metro chairman by melting him, burns cars, firemen, homes, and fire trucks, and burns down the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

In spite of placing himself and his teenage daughter in danger, Mike decides to save the city by diverting the river of lava (with the help of demolition teams) into the concrete channel of Ballona Creek, which allows the lava to flow safely into the Pacific Ocean. But there's a problem. San Vicente Boulevard does not slope down like Mike is thinking. It slopes the opposite direction and the lava will not flow into the creek; it will instead flow the opposite direction; right into the thousands of patients at Cedars Sinai Hospital. So Mike orders the demolition team to plant charges in both the street and the Beverly Center but as they do; the lava hits a block on the Red Line subway and a massive geyser of lava erupts out of San Vicente Boulevard, threatening the Beverly Center and its occupants. Moments later, when all the charges are planted, they are fired one by one and the new 22-story Beverly Heights apartment building just across from the Beverly Center comes crashing down just as Mike Roark saves his daughter Kelly and a little boy named Tommy. Moments later, the lava hits the Pacific Ocean, bringing to an end Mt. Wilshire's reign of terror.