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Deep Impact is a 1998 disaster film/science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures. The film is directed by Mimi Leder. Its all-star cast is headed by Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, Morgan Freeman, Leelee Sobieski and Robert Duvall. The interrelated stories of the plot describe events which take place surrounding the discovery of the fictional "Comet Wolf-Biederman," due to impact Earth, and its subsequent approach to our planet. A film poster for Deep Impact, contended as fair use. ...
Mimi Leder (born January 1, 1957) is an American film director. ...
Robert Duvall Robert Selden Duvall (born on January 5, 1931 in San Diego, California) is an American film actor and director. ...
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Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski (born June 10, 1982 in New York City), better known as Leelee (or LeeLee) Sobieski, is an American actress, born to a French father and a Polish-American mother. ...
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The DreamWorks Boy on the Moon Logo DreamWorks SKG (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen) is a Big Ten studio in the United States of America which develops, produces, and distributes films, music, and television programming. ...
Mimi Leder (born January 1, 1957) is an American film director. ...
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Téa Leoni in The Counterfeit Contessa (1994) Téa Leoni (born Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni, February 25, 1966 in New York City) is an American television and film actress. ...
Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American actor and film director who first became known in the American media through roles on the kids show The Electric Company and on the soap opera Another World. ...
Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski (born June 10, 1982 in New York City), better known as Leelee (or LeeLee) Sobieski, is an American actress, born to a French father and a Polish-American mother. ...
Robert Duvall Robert Selden Duvall (born on January 5, 1931 in San Diego, California) is an American film actor and director. ...
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Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski (born June 10, 1982 in New York City), better known as Leelee (or LeeLee) Sobieski, is an American actress, born to a French father and a Polish-American mother. ...
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Plot summary Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Leo Biederman and Sarah Hotchner, two teenage astronomy club members, discover a new object amongst the stars at night. Little do they know that it is a comet on a direct collision course for Earth. Astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf also discovers the comet and figures out its deadly trajectory, but dies in a car crash on the way from the observatory to alert his colleagues.
A few months later, Jenny Lerner, a field reporter for MSNBC in Washington, DC, finds out about a government secret called "Ellie" that is connected to President Tom Beck. Initially deducing it as an affair, when she asks him about it, she finds out it is really "ELE", code for extinction-level event. President Beck invites her to a press conference, where he announces the comet's existence. The comet, seven miles wide, is large enough to wipe out civilization if it hits the Earth. President Beck announces that NASA is going to send a crew of astronauts on the spaceship Messiah to the comet, now named "Wolf-Biederman" after Dr. Wolf and Leo, who separately discovered the same comet. Led by Captain Spurgeon Tanner, the mission of Messiah is to destroy the comet before it gets too close to Earth, using an arsenal of atomic bombs. Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...
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Life changes drastically worldwide, and Leo Biederman and Jenny Lerner separately become celebrities. Leo tries to live as normal a life as he can considering what is going on, and love blossoms between him and Sarah. Jenny swiftly rises to become an anchor for MSNBC, and is also reunited with her estranged father, though their relationship is still very strained.
Messiah makes it to the comet and plants the bombs, but Dr. Gus Partenza is lost, and Oren Monash is blinded and otherwise injured severely. The nuclear explosion's shock wave damages the vessel, cutting off contact. The explosions, instead of destroying the comet, split it into two pieces (the larger six-mile-wide fragment, "Wolf", and the smaller 1.5-mile-wide fragment, "Biederman"). Messiah's remaining crew sets a course back to Earth, still carrying some bombs, hoping to make it back in time for one more try.
President Beck, acknowledging Messiah's failure, announces that special caves had been built as a contingency, and the government will conduct a lottery-of-fate to randomly select 800,000 ordinary American citizens to go along with 200,000 pre-selected scientists, specialists, soldiers and other officials. These 1,000,000 people will be part of a worldwide effort to save the population from extinction when the comets hit Earth.
Life as we know it ends as the lottery's selectees are notified. Jenny and Leo are both among the pre-selected. Leo, being a minor, is permitted to bring his family. He also gets permission to marry Sarah, in order to save her and her family, who were not selected in the lottery. But when it comes time to evacuate to the caves, the officers conducting it have no room for the rest of Sarah's family, prompting Sarah to remain behind.
Leo escapes before entering the salt caves, determined to be with Sarah, whether he lives or not. He makes his way home, where (luckily) his motorbike has not been looted. He finds Sarah's family on a gridlocked freeway and takes Sarah and her infant sister on the motorbike, escaping up the Appalachian Mountains. Meanwhile, Jenny abandons her spot and gives it to Beth Stanley, a co-worker who has a young daughter, and sends them off to the caves. She then goes to the coast to be with her father, too old to even participate in the lottery, at his beach house. There they finally find an understanding, even as they find their fate. The Appalachian Mountains are a system of North American mountains running from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to Alabama in the United States, although the northernmost mainland portion ends at the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec. ...
Ultimately, after a last-ditch effort to use all of Earth's missile-borne nuclear weapons to destroy the comets fails, "Biederman" impacts in the North Atlantic Ocean, sending out a megatsunami over 400 meters tall that floods out the global Atlantic coastlines. Jenny and her father, and Sarah's parents, all die, along with countless millions more. The movie shows realistic imagery of the wave knocking over buildings in New York City like dominoes. Leo and Sarah manage to get high enough in the mountains to avoid the wave, along with thousands of others. For other uses, see Atlantic (disambiguation) The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one-fifth of its surface. ...
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Messiah arrives ahead of "Wolf", and informs NASA of its decision to engage in a suicide mission to try and destroy the remaining fragment. They arrive with time to spare to say goodbye to their families. Oren Monash is told that his wife, who got pregnant before he departed, had given birth to their son she named after him. Messiah then dives into a fissure on the surface and detonates the remaining atomic bombs on-board, vaporizing "Wolf" over North America, preventing a predicted land impact somewhere in Canada and saving humanity. The movie ends with President Beck giving an inspirational speech in front of the construction site of the new Capitol building to kick off recovery efforts, with Leo and Sarah present. World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west...
A competing "space impact" film, Armageddon, was released at approximately the same time as Deep Impact. Deep Impact is generally considered to be more realistic than Armageddon, and had a stronger emphasis on the effect on society. Nevertheless, Armageddon was a bigger hit, though Deep Impact was also highly successful both financially and critically. The album cover Armageddon is a 1998 disaster film/science fiction film about a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers who are sent by NASA to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. ...
See also Artists impression of a major impact event. ...
Illustration of the Deep Impact space probe after impactor separation (artists conception) Deep Impact is a NASA space probe designed to study the composition of the interior of the comet Tempel 1. ...
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