Deep Impact

1998 121 min Action, Drama, Science Fiction

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.

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IMDb 6.3 RT 45 Metacritic 40

budget $75,000,000 earnings $349,464,664 return 4.7x

director Mimi Leder

writers Bruce Joel Rubin, Michael Tolkin

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