
Deep Impact (1998)
Oceans rise. Cities fall. Hope survives.
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Deep Impact rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
With 45% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.3/10 on IMDb and 40/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.
About Deep Impact
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.
Cast of Deep Impact

Robert Duvall
as Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner

Téa Leoni
as Jenny Lerner

Elijah Wood
as Leo Biederman

Vanessa Redgrave
as Robin Lerner

Morgan Freeman
as President Tom Beck

Maximilian Schell
as Jason Lerner

James Cromwell
as Alan Rittenhouse

Ron Eldard
as Oren Monash

Jon Favreau
as Gus Partenza

Laura Innes
as Beth Stanley

Mary McCormack
as Andrea Baker

Richard Schiff
as Don Biederman
Deep Impact facts
- Budget
- $75M
- Box office
- $349.5M
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Disaster movie spectacle delivers impressive visual effects adequately
- •Ensemble cast explores human cost of catastrophic asteroid event
- •Action and drama balance creates accessible disaster film entertainment
What the audience disliked
- •Melodrama overshadows scientific authenticity throughout narrative
- •Character arcs feel predictable within disaster-film formula
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