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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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
James Cromwell
Alan Rittenhouse
Ron Eldard
Oren Monash
Jon Favreau
Gus Partenza
Laura Innes
Beth Stanley
Director
Mimi Leder
Tagline
"Oceans rise. Cities fall. Hope survives."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$75,000,000
Revenue
$349,464,664
Production
Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, The Zanuck/Brown Company
talisencrw
July 18, 2016
I 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 if you like disaster movies or any of the actors involved, maybe even renting or buying the DVD used or for a really good price new, say for 5 bucks, ...
Patrick E. Abe
September 29, 2016
A 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 aware of The Danger From Space. From there, seemingly unrelated events come to the attention of a novice TV reporter, culminating in an Apollo-Soyuz...
CinemaSerf
August 28, 2023
This 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 television journalist assigned to investigate the resignation of a senior US Government official (James Cromwell) during which she discovers that a comet...
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