Taking the title from the novel by Jules Verne, this story takes his basic premise of the desire to travel to the center of the Earth. This is where the similarty ends, the story becomes more like Edgar Rice Burrough's "At the Earth's Core," when the travellers using their craft penetrate an active volcano and encounter a strange world filled with many creatures and an evil force controlling it all. The 2 hour television movie might have been a pilot for a series, based on the closing dialog as the central characters realize they are stuck down there and they speculate about what adventures might lie ahead.
Features
Rain Man (1988)
- Documentary on autism illustrated by footage from this movie