Deep Impact (movie) - Definition and Overview

Deep Impact

Director	Mimi Leder
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Writer	Bruce Joel Rubin Michael Tolkin
Starring	Robert Duvall Téa Leoni Elijah Wood Morgan Freeman
Distributor	Paramount Pictures
Released	May 7, 1998
Runtime	120 min.
Language	English
Budget:	$75 million
Tagline:	Heaven and Earth are about to collide.
IMDb Page (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/)

Deep Impact is a 1998 motion picture directed by Mimi Leder starring Téa Leoni, Morgan Freeman, Elijah Wood and Robert Duvall. The inter-related stories of the film describe events which take place surrounding the discovery of a comet named "Wolf-Biederman" due to impact the earth and its subsequent approach to our planet.

A competing "space impact" film, Armageddon, was released at approximately the same time as Deep Impact; this was also during a time when two movies featuring volcanos exploding (Dante's Peak and Volcano) were released side by side. Deep Impact is generally considered to be more realistic than Armageddon, and had a stronger emphasis on the effect on society.

See also

• Impact event
• Deep Impact (space mission)

External links

• Deep Impact (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/) at the Internet Movie Database