Armageddon
Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film produced and directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film follows a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth. It stars Bruce Willis with Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Will Patton, Steve Buscemi, William Fichtner, Owen Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan and Peter Stormare.
Plot
A massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis, before entering the atmosphere and bombarding New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Moncton, Halifax, and Newfoundland. The meteors were pushed out of the asteroid belt by a collision from a rogue comet and a massive asteroid the size of Texas, and NASA learns that the asteroid will impact Earth in 18 days, potentially wiping out all life on Earth. NASA devises a plan to have a deep hole drilled into the asteroid, into which they will insert and detonate a nuclear bomb to destroy the asteroid.
Awards
Cast
- Andrew Heckler
- Andy Milder
- Anthony Guidera
- Ben Affleck
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Bodhi Elfman
- Bruce Willis
- Chris Ellis
- Christian Clemenson
- Dwight Hicks
- Dyllan Christopher
- Eddie Griffin
- Erik Sullivan
- Fred Weller
- Gedde Watanabe
- Grace Zabriskie
- Grayson McCouch
- Greg Collins
- James Harper
- Jason Isaacs
- Jessica Steen
- Jim Fitzpatrick
- Judith Hoag
- Keith David
- Ken Hudson Campbell
- Lawrence Tierney
- Layla Roberts
- Liv Tyler
- Mark Boone Junior
- Marshall R. Teague
- Matt Malloy
- Michael Bay
- Michael Clarke Duncan
- Michael Kaplan
- Owen Wilson
- Peter Stormare
- Peter White
- Seiko Matsuda
- Shawnee Smith
- Stanley Anderson
- Steve Buscemi
- Steven Ford
- Udo Kier
- Will Patton
- William Fichtner