Deep Impact (8/10) Movie CLIP - The Comet Hits Earth (1998) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
The comet makes impact in spectacular fashion, destroying the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker) directed this science-fiction disaster drama about the possible extinction of human life after a comet is discovered headed toward Earth with the collision only one year away. Ambitious MSNBC reporter Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni) stumbles onto the story, prompting a White House press conference. United States President Beck (Morgan Freeman) announces the government's solution: a team of astronauts will travel to the comet and destroy it. The team leader aboard the spaceship Messiah is Spurgeon Tanner (Robert Duvall), who was once the last man to walk on the moon. However, the mission fails, splitting off a chunk of the comet, now due to land in the Atlantic with the impact sending a 350-foot tidal wave flooding 650 miles inland, destroying New York and other cities. The larger part of the comet, hitting in Canada, will trigger an E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event), not unlike a "nuclear winter" as dust clouds block out the sun and bring life to an end. President Beck reveals Plan B: a cavernous underground retreat constructed to hold one million Americans, with most to be selected through a national lottery. Since teenage amateur astronomer Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood) discovered the comet, his family gets a pass to enter the cave, but his girlfriend Sarah (Leelee Sobieski) and her parents will be left behind. Meanwhile, still in space, Spurgeon Tanner devises a plan for a kamikaze-styled operation that could possibly save the Earth. Special visual effects by Scott Farrar and Industrial Light & Magic.

CREDITS:
TM & © Dreamworks (1998)
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Gary Werntz, Elijah Wood, Denise Crosby, Téa Leoni, Leelee Sobieski
Director: Mimi Leder
Producers: Joan Bradshaw, D. Scott Easton, Walter F. Parkes, Steven Spielberg, Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown
Screenwriters: Bruce Joel Rubin, Michael Tolkin

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[not_adarsha]

""Any disaster movie: exists""

""Statue of liberty: my time has come""

[pugtubepro]

Credit to the cameraman for surviving all this

[allanmeade]

Deep Impact still stands as one of the best movies of the late 90’s

[CZghost]

Being it created in 1998, seeing the WTC still standing is so relaxing. Before it's smashed by the wave.

[powagucho]

0:57
Statue of Liberty: why am I getting destroyed in every single natural disaster movie

[robbritt]

The guy reading the paper at 1:10 always made me laugh in the midst of the tragedy.

[princeedmirovillar]

1:47 - That water displacement was insane

[LouieTzepher]

When she said "daddy", i felt that fear in her voice, great acting.

[bradrly]

1:36 the girl is just like, "lol im in a movie"

[meghana]

Meanwhile: **schools will remain open the next day and students' assignments will be checked....**

[valentinsanfilippo]

The fact that the dad is still protecting his daughter even in this situation shows us that dads will always be our hero’s.

[rodekirby]

This is some good cgi for such an old movie

[venture]

Me: Drops a bucket of water

The Ants:

[luwucian]

1:09, 1:14 and 1:23 I love that we can see people who are not running, they know they can do absolutely nothing to escape, It's not bad to be afraid or try to escape, but when you accept that you can't do anything somehow you go calmer, good detail, sad but I love it

[Bondek]

The "daddy" line gets me everytime

[afnanforyou]

I really like this scene, there is no annoying BGM, just pure destruction noises...

[aloofmilitaryveteran]

0:43 gets me every time. A grown woman clings to her father one final time, as she did years ago as a child.

0:44, father closing his eyes, knowing he cannot save his little girl. But he's stoic, at peace.

Touching scene.

[zutalors]

I never get tired of the scene with the big wave taking out the bridge. It last like 3 seconds, but so well done.

[ASolutionWillBeFound]

The CGI for this movie in way ahead of its time, amazing movie

[vortiki]

1:10 man causally sitting on a bench like nothing’s happening