Armageddon

**Armageddon** is a UK VHS release by Disney Videos and Touchstone Home Video on 1st February 1999 and 23rd August 1999.

## Description

For love. For honor. For humankind.

NOTHING ON EARTH CAN PREPARE YOU.

From the blockbuster-making team who produced and directed *The Rock* comes the biggest movies of the year -  Starring the explosive talents of Bruce Willis, Academy award-winners Ben Affleck and Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Steve Buscemi and Will Patton,  is a meteor-storm of action adventure movie making that has you on the edge of your seat forgetting to breathe!

When NASA's executive director Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) realizes the Earth has 18 days before it's obliterated by a meteor the size of Texas, he has only one option - land a ragtag team of roughneck oil drillers on the asteroid and drop a nuclear warhead into its core. Spectacular special effects, laugh-out-loud humor, great characters, riveting storytelling and heartfelt emotion make  an exhilarating thrill ride you'll want to experience like there's no tomorrow.

## Cast

* Bruce Willis as Harry S. Stamper
* Billy Bob Thornton as Dan Truman
* Liv Tyler as Grace Stamper
* Ben Affleck as A.J. Frost
* Will Patton as Chick
* Peter Stormare as Lev Andropov
* Keith David as General Kimsey
* Owen Wilson as Oscar
* William Fichtner as Colonel Willie Sharp
* Steve Buscemi as Rockhound
* Michael Clarke Duncan as Bear
* Jessica Steen as Co-Pilot Jennifer Watts
* Jason Isaacs as Ronald Quincy
* Ken Campbell as Max
* Grayson McCouch as Gruber
* Clark Brolly as Noonan
* Marshall Teague as Colonel Davis
* Chris Ellis as Flight Director Clark
* Anthony Guidera as Co-Pilot Tucker
* Greg Collins as Halsey

## Opening (Rental 1999 Re-release)

* Blue Warning Screen
* European Captioning Institute Warning Screen (1995-2005)
* Touchstone Home Video Ident
* Coming Soon logo (1993-2004)
* Mars UK TV Advert Part 1
* The Lion King II: Simba's Pride trailer [announced by Ringo Starr]
* Discovery Channel UK TV Advert Part 1 [announced by Jim Carrey]
* The Horse Whisperer trailer [announced by Dave Benson Phillips]
* Pot Noodle UK TV Advert
* Meet The Deedles trailer [announced by Brian Cummings]
* Discovery Channel UK TV Advert Part 2 [announced by Jim Carrey featuring Bill St. James]
* Mafia! trailer [announced by Michael Angelis]
* Vauxhall Frontera 1999 (UK TV Advert) [announced by Jim Carrey]
* Now Available bumper (1995-2004)
* Six Days, Seven Nights trailer [announced by Michael Angelis]
* Mars UK TV Advert Part 2
* VSC 12 Warning (Walt Disney/Buena Vista) [announced by Emilio Delgado]
* Feature Presentation logo (1992-2004)
* Touchstone Pictures Ident
* Jerry Bruckheimer Films Ident
* Valhalla Motion Pictures Ident
* Start of Armageddon (1998)

## Opening (Original 1999 release)

* Blue Warning Screen
* European Captioning Institute Warning Screen (1995-2005)
* Touchstone Home Video Ident
* Talk Magazine UK TV Advert [announced by Dave Benson Phillips]
* Now Available logo (1995-2004)
* A Bug's Life trailer [announced by Neil Morrissey]
* Aerosmith - "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" music video
* Feature Presentation logo (1992-2004)
* Touchstone Pictures Ident
* Jerry Bruckheimer Films Ident
* Valhalla Motion Pictures Ident
* Start of Armageddon (1998)

## Trailers and info

### Original 1999 release

1. Talk Magazine 1999 (UK TV Advert)
2. A Bug's Life (Now Available on Video) (announced by Neil Morrissey)

### Rental 1999 Re-release

1. Mars 1999 (UK TV Advert)
2. Lion King II: Simba's Pride
3. Discovery Channel 1999 (UK TV Advert featuring Bill St. James)
4. The Horse Whisperer
5. Pot Noodle 1999 (UK TV Advert)
6. Meet The Deedles
7. Discovery Channel 2 1999 (UK TV Advert featuring Bill St. James)
8. Mafia! trailer
9. Vauxhall Frontera 1999 (UK TV Advert)
10. Six Days, Seven Nights
11. Mars 2 1999 (UK TV Advert)
12. VSC 12 Warning (Walt Disney/Buena Vista)