Deep Impact poster
Director Mimi Leder
Screenplay Michael Tolkin, Bruce Joel Rubin

Deep Impact

Tagline: Oceans rise. Cities fall. Hope survives.

Release Date: 1998-05-08

Duration: 120 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • James Cromwell
    Alan Rittenhouse
  • Morgan Freeman
    President Tom Beck
  • Téa Leoni
    Jenny Lerner
  • Elijah Wood
    Leo Biederman
  • Jon Favreau
    Gus Partenza
  • Leelee Sobieski
    Sarah Hotchner
  • Robert Duvall
    Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
  • Rya Kihlstedt
    Chloe
  • Kurtwood Smith
    Otis Hefter
  • Richard Schiff
    Don Biederman