Deep Impact

"Oceans rise. Cities fall. Hope survives."

1998 2h 2m EN

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6.3

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★6.3TMDB · 3,495

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Synopsis

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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.”

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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
James Cromwell
Alan Rittenhouse
Ron Eldard
Oren Monash

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Mimi Leder
Writers: Philip Keller, Michael Anthony Jackson, David Lowery
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Mid-budget at $75M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 4.7× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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28 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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4 / 8

CAST

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272+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Mimi Leder, shot by Dietrich Lohmann. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by James Horner. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor David Rosenbloom shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Robert Duvall and Téa Leoni and Elijah Wood carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Mimi Leder directs. Dietrich Lohmann behind the camera. James Horner scores. David Rosenbloom cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Mid-budget at $75M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Made its money back 4.7× over at the box office.
328 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4272+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
5Directed by Mimi Leder, shot by Dietrich Lohmann. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by James Horner. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor David Rosenbloom shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Robert Duvall and Téa Leoni and Elijah Wood carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Oceans rise. Cities fall. Hope survives.".
10IMDB entry: tt0120647 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 17 themes, including "usa president", "asteroid", "nasa", "natural disaster".

The technical file

Cinematography: Dietrich Lohmann
Original score: James Horner
Editing: David Rosenbloom
Production design: Leslie Dilley
Costume design: Ruth Myers
Makeup / hair: Waldo Sanchez
VFX supervisor: Kenneth Jones
Sound: John P. Fasal
Stunt coordinator: Charles Croughwell
Runtime: 122 min · 2h 2m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $75,000,000
Box office: $349,464,664
Return: 466% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Deep Impact (1998)

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talisencrw2016-07-18
★ 6/10
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, but anything more would be wasteful or being ripped off.
Patrick E. Abe2016-09-29
★ 8/10
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 level cooperative near space mission. The star-studded crew isn't worked very hard, even as the people are divided into two groups by lottery. Nevertheless, Family is front and center, in many forms, from divided to nuclear to "baby makes three." At least the audience wasn't subjected to a barrage of macho chatter that characterized "Armageddon," but a out-of-this-world reading of "Moby Dick." Morgan Freeman's "President Tom Beck" does his best "Abraham Lincoln" in this film, which is one reason I watch this film when it is broadcast, even though I have the DVD. 8/10;)
CinemaSerf2023-08-28
★ 5/10
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 discovered a year earlier is on a collision course with Earth. President Morgan Freeman convinces her to hold off on broadcasting the story whilst they finalise their contingency plan - a joint Russo-American space craft called the "Messiah" charged with a mission to divert this monstrous chunk of rock from it's path of destruction. Robert Duvall manages to conjure up some sort of gravitas as the navigator of the ship but otherwise a good cast - on paper - including Maximillian Schell, Jon Favreau, a very young Dougray Scott and Vanessa Redgrave as her mother, all really fail to make any, well, impact! The effects are quite good but I'll bet they prayed they only had to shoot the finals scenes once!