Overview:
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.| Status: | Released (1998-05-08) |
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| Awards: | 5 wins & 14 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $140,464,664 |
| Screen: | Bruce Joel Rubin, Michael Tolkin |
| Productions: | Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, The Zanuck/Brown Company |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 3087: Robert Duvall - Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
- 4939: Téa Leoni - Jenny Lerner
- 109: Elijah Wood - Leo Biederman
- 13333: Vanessa Redgrave - Robin Lerner
- 192: Morgan Freeman - President Tom Beck
- 12150: Maximilian Schell - Jason Lerner
- 2505: James Cromwell - Alan Rittenhouse
Crews
- 1297: Richard D. Zanuck - Producer - Production
- 17816: David Rosenbloom - Editor - Editing
- 10616: Dietrich Lohmann - Director of Photography - Camera
- 51984: Mimi Leder - Director - Directing
- 11712: Joan Bradshaw - Executive Producer - Production
- 19310: Ruth Myers - Costume Design - Costume & Make-Up
- 2212: Walter F. Parkes - Executive Producer - Production
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Reviews
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I was really disappointed, considering all of the great actors involved and since I love science fiction and the great disaster films of days gone by. I bought the DVD used and got my money's worth--it's a decent watch. I would recommend watching if you like disaster movies or any ....
Continue reading ->Patrick E. Abe
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A high school Astronomy club discovers a celestial anomaly, their advisor checks it, becomes alarmed at what he finds, and things shift gears. Not bad for a movie that made "E.L.E/Extinction Level Event" a popular phrase and made the naive public aware of The Danger From Space. ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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This could have been so very much better had director Mimi Leder focussed on creating either a decent science fiction film or an extinction event family drama, rather than this messy hybrid with too many slushy emotional sub plots. Téa Leoni is a television journalist assigned to inv ....
Continue reading ->Bytecrawler
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Not your typical disaster movie. In my mind this was far better than Armageddon, which came out about the same time. Instead focusing on chaos and selfishness this movie gave us a positive portrayal of people dealing with an unthinkable tragedy. I found it to be realistic and hopeful ....
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