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Deep Impact - Special Edition [1998]
from Dreamworks Home Entertainment
starring Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman, Elijah Wood
directed by Mimi Leder

Features:

• PAL
• Special Edition

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• One of my favourite films !!
  This is such a fantastic film, unfortunately with a semi identical plot to armageddon, but far more the superior of the two! It doesn't have the stupid unrealistic hollywood love story and it isn't so comercial. I always bawl my eyes out at this film, it's so touching. And unlike other disaster movies - Day aftr tomorrow, i'm looking at you! It's not ridiculous!

• Could have been perfect if ...
  I love space stories, disaster movies and comet impact. I believe it is a man's tretory. The producers usually blend in some love story, sex scandal, and other feminine issues to make it appeal to non-scientific audiances, but they forget that the main reason why most men want to risk their life to go into space and face a baren empty space is to escape from these relational issues. A good producer does this seamlessly, but there were far too much contrasting stories in this one, taking a lot from the main... more info

• A disaster movie that's not macho!
  Taking several parallel threads that do not all meet at the end, 'Deep Impact' gives a very human feel to a very big, and very possible, disaster scenario.
  I watched this (again) the other day, after watching about 10 minutes of the relatively dreadful 'Meteor'. Yes, DI is centred around the US, but there is nothing macho or gung-ho in there at all, just lots of nice touches - the conversation that Jenny Lerner has with the President, where he thinks she knows what ELE is, and she thinks she knows too... more info

• One of the best disaster movies
  In 'Deep Impact" a meteor the size of New York is discovered heading straight towards Earth and civilization has one year to prepare for the collision which will most likely make the every living thing on Earth extinct unless it can be stopped.
  The film is from America's perspective, lead by the US President (Morgan Freeman) who has set up a team of the best astronauts (including a fantastic performance by Robert Duvall) to drill some nuclear warheads into the meteor to hopefully break it up or... more info

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