Deep Impact Film

Deep Appulse is a 1998 disaster/science-fiction-drama blur appear by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks in the United States on May 8, 1998. The blur was directed by Mimi Leder, and stars Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, Morgan Freeman, and Robert Duvall. The artifice describes the attempts to adapt for and abort a comet, which is accepted to bang with the Earth and account a accumulation extinction.

Another "space impact" film, Armageddon, was appear about two months afterwards Deep Appulse in the United States.[1] Deep Appulse was acclaimed by astronomers as actuality added scientifically accurate[2], but Armageddon fared bigger at the box office.[3] They were about appropriately accustomed by critics (Armageddon scoring 41% and Deep Appulse scoring 46% on the Tomatometer).

At a brilliant affair on May 10, 1998, boyish abecedarian astronomer Leo Biederman (Wood) discovers an abnormal article abreast the stars Mizar and Alcor, and alerts able astronomer Marcus Wolf (Charles Martin Smith) at a bounded observatory. Wolf learns that the article is a comet and calculates that it will appulse with Earth, but dies in a car draft afore he can active the world.

A year later, MSNBC anchorman Jenny Lerner (Leoni) investigates the abandonment of the United States Secretary of the Treasury and his affiliation to an "Ellie". She discovers that Ellie is not a bedmate but "E.L.E.", an acronym for "extinction-level event". Because of Lerner's investigation, President of the United States Tom Beck (Freeman) announces the austere facts: The comet—named Wolf-Biederman—is 7 afar (11 km) wide, ample abundant to abort acculturation if it strikes Earth. The United States and Russia accept been secretly amalgam in apogee Messiah, the better aircraft anytime built. They plan to accelerate Messiah to abort the comet with nuclear weapons. Activity changes acutely worldwide, and Leo and Lerner both become celebrities.

After landing on the comet Messiah's aggregation plants the bombs into its surface, but one aggregation affiliate dies and addition is actively injured. When the bombs are detonated, Messiah is damaged and acquaintance with Earth is lost. The comet is not destroyed; instead, it splits into two chunks, one a mile and a bisected advanced (named "Biederman") and the added six afar advanced ("Wolf"), but both still world-threatening. Beck acknowledges Messiah’s failure, declares aggressive law, and announces that governments common are architecture underground shelters. The United States' civic ambush is in the limestone caves of Missouri. The US government conducts a action to baddest 800,000 accustomed Americans to accompany 200,000 pre-selected scientists, engineers, teachers, artists, soldiers, and officials. Lerner, Leo, and his ancestors are pre-selected, but Leo's adherent Sarah Hotchner (Leelee Sobieski) is not. Leo marries Sarah to save her ancestors but the Hotchners are afield larboard off the alien list; Sarah refuses to leave after them.

A last-ditch accomplishment to use Earth's missile-borne nuclear weapons to avert the comets fails. Leo allotment home attractive for Sarah, but her ancestors has larboard for the Appalachian Mountains on a awash highway. Using the Hotchners' motorcycle, he catches up with them, and Sarah's parents assert that Leo booty her and their baby babe to aerial ground. Meanwhile, Lerner gives up her bench in an aborticide helicopter to her acquaintance Beth and her adolescent daughter. The Biederman fragment impacts in the Atlantic Ocean abreast Bermuda. The consistent supersonic megatsunami bound becomes hundreds of anxiety aerial as it active inland. Leo and Sarah survive, but Lerner, Sarah's parents, and millions of others are dead forth the Atlantic coasts of North America, South America, Europe, and Africa.

The apple again braces for the appulse of Wolf, which will bang western Canada and actualize a billow of dust that will block out the sun for two years, killing all actual plant, animal, and animal activity abreast from those abandoned underground. Messiah—believed lost—reaches the fragment and enters a abysm to draft itself up. Messiah's suicide mission break up Wolf into abundant abate pieces that bake up in Earth's atmosphere, sparing humanity.

The blur closes with Beck speaking to a ample army in advanced of the under-reconstruction United States Capitol, during which he urges the nation to abide its recovery.

Cast

* Elijah Wood as Leo Biederman

* Téa Leoni as Jenny Lerner

* Robert Duvall as Capt. Spurgeon "Fish" Tanner

* Morgan Freeman as President Tom Beck

* Vanessa Redgrave as Robin Lerner

* Maximilian Schell as Jason Lerner

* Leelee Sobieski as Sarah Hotchner

* James Cromwell as Al Rittenhouse

* Ron Eldard as Dr. Oren Monash, NASA

* Jon Favreau as Dr. Gus Partenza

* Laura Innes as Beth Stanley

* Mary McCormack as Andrea "Andy" Baker, NASA

* Richard Schiff as Don Biederman

* Blair Underwood as Mark Simon, NASA

* Mike O'Malley as Mike Perry, Leo's Teacher

* Charles Martin Smith as Dr. Marcus Wolf

* Dougray Scott as Eric Vennekor

* Kurtwood Smith as Otis Hefter

* Denise Crosby as Vicky Hotchner