Deep Impact
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 the attempts to prepare for and destroy a wide comet set to collide with Earth and cause a mass extinction.
Plot
In May 1998, at a star party, teenage amateur astronomer Leo Beiderman observes an unidentified object in the night sky. He sends a picture to astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf, who realizes it is a comet on collision course with Earth. Wolf dies in a car crash while racing to raise the alarm.
Cast
- Aleksandr Baluev
- Alimi Ballard
- Betsy Brantley
- Blair Underwood
- Bruce Weitz
- Charles Dumas
- Charles Martin Smith
- Concetta Tomei
- Cynthia Ettinger
- Denise Crosby
- Derek de Lint
- Don Handfield
- Dougray Scott
- Elijah Wood
- Ellen Bry
- Francis X. McCarthy
- Gary Werntz
- Hannah Werntz
- James Cromwell
- Jason Dohring
- Jennifer Jostyn
- John Ducey
- Jon Favreau
- Kimberly Huie
- Kurtwood Smith
- Laura Innes
- Leelee Sobieski
- Leslie Dilley
- Mark Moses
- Mary McCormack
- Maximilian Schell
- Merrin Dungey
- Michael Winters
- Mike O'Malley
- Morgan Freeman
- Richard Schiff
- Robert Duvall
- Ron Eldard
- Rya Kihlstedt
- Suzy Nakamura
- Téa Leoni
- Tucker Smallwood
- Vanessa Redgrave
- W. Earl Brown