Deep Impact 1998

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 120 min

genre: science fiction

theme: disaster

director: Mimi Leder

Score: 6 / 10

Deep Impact is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film directed by Mimi Leder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, and starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, and Morgan Freeman. Steven Spielberg served as an executive producer of this film. It was released by Paramount Pictures in North America and by DreamWorks Pictures internationally on May 8, 1998. The film depicts humanity's attempts to prepare for and destroy a wide comet set to collide with Earth and cause a mass extinction.

Plot

On May 10, 1998 in Richmond, Virginia, Leo Biederman observes an unidentified object in the night sky at his astronomy club's star party. His picture is sent to astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf, who realizes it is a comet on a collision course with Earth. Wolf dies in a car crash while racing to raise the alarm.

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author	Bruce Joel Rubin Michael Tolkin
contentLocation	New York City Washington, D.C.
director	Mimi Leder
editor	David Rosenbloom
events	impact event
genre	science fiction
keywords	appalachian mountains atlantic ocean baby brother cape hatteras car crash collision course comet create discover east coast east coast of the united states extinction event fly icbm impact winter intercontinental ballistic missile learn martial law megatsunami missouri msnbc north carolina nuclear bomb nuclear bombs nuclear weapons ohio ohio river valley press conference rebuild ritual suicide secretary of the treasury senior citizen subtropolis tennessee valley underground shelters united states capitol western canada
musicBy	James Horner
producer	David Brown Richard D. Zanuck
productionCompany	Amblin Entertainment David Brown DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Pictures The Zanuck Company
publisher	United International Pictures
theme	disaster race survival