Story Line
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.
“Oceans rise. Cities fall. Hope survives.”
Top Cast
Robert Duvall
Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
Téa Leoni
Jenny Lerner
Elijah Wood
Leo Biederman
Vanessa Redgrave
Robin Lerner
Morgan Freeman
President Tom Beck
Maximilian Schell
Jason Lerner
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Rating
6.2/ 10
Release Date
1998-05-08
Runtime
2h 1m
Genres
ActionDramaScience Fiction
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User Reviews (3)
talisencrw
6/10
•7/18/2016I 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 ...
Patrick E. Abe
8/10
•9/29/2016A 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 a...
CinemaSerf
5/10
•8/28/2023This 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 tel...