Deep Impact (film)

Deep Impact is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film.^[3] 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. It was released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks in the United States on May 8, 1998. The plot describes the attempts to prepare for and destroy a 7-mile wide comet, which was to collide with the Earth and cause a mass extinction.
Notably, Deep Impact was released in the same summer as a similarly-themed rival, Armageddon. Although Deep Impact was perceived to have greater scientific credibility than Armageddon,^[4] the latter film fared better at the box office. Nonetheless, Deep Impact grossed over $349 million worldwide on an $80 million production budget. Both films were similarly received by critics, with Armageddon scoring 39% and Deep Impact scoring 47% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Directed by	Mimi Leder
Produced by	David Brown Richard D. Zanuck
Written by	Bruce Joel Rubin Michael Tolkin
Starring	Robert Duvall Téa Leoni Elijah Wood Vanessa Redgrave Maximilian Schell Morgan Freeman
Music by	James Horner
Cinematography	Dietrich Lohmann
Editing by	Paul Cichocki David Rosenbloom
Studio	Paramount Pictures Dreamworks The Manhattan Project Zanuck/Brown Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	May 8, 1998
Running time	121 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$80,000,000[1]
Box office	$349,464,664[2]