Deep Impact (movie)

Deep Impact is a 1998 American science fiction disaster movie directed by Mimi Leder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, and starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, and Morgan Freeman. Steven Spielberg was an executive producer of this movie. It was released by Paramount Pictures in North America and by DreamWorks Pictures internationally on May 8, 1998.

The movie shows the attempts to prepare for and destroy a  wide comet set to collide with Earth and cause a mass extinction.

Deep Impact was released in the same summer as the similarly themed Armageddon, which earned more at the box office, while astronomers described Deep Impact as being more accurate.

Both movies got similar mixed reviews by movie critics, with Armageddon scoring 43% and Deep Impact scoring 45% on Rotten Tomatoes. Deep Impact did very well at the box office, earning over $349.5 million worldwide on an $80 million movie budget, becoming the sixth highest-earning movie of 1998.

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