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Deep Impact is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film 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. Steven Spielberg served as an executive producer of this film. It was released by Paramount Pictures in North America and by DreamWorks Pictures internationally on May 8, 1998. The film depicts the attempts to prepare for and destroy a 7-mile (11 km) wide comet set to collide with Earth and cause a mass extinction.

Deep Impact was released in the same summer as the similarly themed Armageddon, which fared better at the box office, while astronomers described Deep Impact as being more accurate. Both films were similarly received by critics, with Armageddon scoring 43% and Deep Impact scoring 45% on Rotten Tomatoes. Deep Impact grossed over $349.5 million worldwide on an $80 million production budget, becoming the sixth highest-grossing film of 1998.

It was the final film by cinematographer Dietrich Lohmann, who died before the film's release.

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SYNOPSIS: Two students at the astronomy club are Leo Beiderman (Elijah Wood) and his girlfriend, Sarah Hotchner (Leelee Sobieski). Leo finds an unidentified object in the sky and his teacher Mr. Perry, thinking it might be a satellite, suggests they take a photograph and send it to Dr. Wolf, a professional astronomer.

Dr Wolf finds the objects & sees that it's on a collision course to Earth. He tries to email his findings, but server is down. He copies the data to a floppy disk & names the comet Wolf-Beiderman. He takes a drive down the mountain to reach his HQ but has a fiery crash on the way that kills him.

Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni) is a news researcher working for Beth Stanley her boss & the White House correspondent. Beth is denying Jenny the opportunity to become a journalist or an anchor. She asks Jenny to work on the recent resignation of US Sec of Treasury Alan Rittenhouse. Jenny meets her mother, Robin Lerner (Vanessa Redgrave) for drinks and lunch. Robin is preoccupied with the courtship of her now ex-husband, Jason (Maximilian Schell) to a younger woman named Chloe (Rya Kihlstedt). Jason and Chloe have very young twin children together and have just married that morning.

Jenny meets Patricia, Alan's secy & finds that Alan talked to the President himself about Ellie, a possible mistress. Jenny tracks Alan down who is leaving with his family on a boat with a huge number of supplies. Jenny is then taken by the Secret Service to meet the President (Morgan Freeman). The President asks Jenny to keep E.L.E a secret for 2 days when he will give a press conference & gives Jenny the privilege of the first question, knowing what it can do for her career.

Jenny researches and finds E.L.E stands for extinction level event. Asteroid hitting the Earth!! She hides this from Beth. At the press conference, Beth is in the last rows while Jenny is in the 2nd row & given the first question as President explains about comet Wolf-Beiderman which will strike Earth in 1 yr. A US Russia joint mission is underway to intercept the comet & blow it up before it strikes. The ships name is messiah.

President Beck calls up a video conference to introduce the crew of the Messiah-- mission Commander Oren Monash (Ron Eldard), spacecraft pilot Andrea Baker (Mary McCormack), medical officer Gus Partenza (Jon Favreau), navigator Mark Simon (Blair Underwood), Russian nuclear physicist Col. Mikhail Tulchinsky (Aleksandr Baluev) who is serving as Messiah's engineer, and a NASA veteran, Captain Spurgeon 'Tanner' Tanner (Robert Duvall), who will land the spacecraft on the comet's surface so the warheads can be planted.

Jenny's MSNBC crew, in a frenzy over preparing their coverage of the conference, are stunned to see her at the conference. Jenny presses her privilege, asking three questions before finally sitting. Beck finally acknowledges that all of human survival is at stake. But, he insists, life will go on, and he is determined that humanity prevail even over this potential catastrophe. President alludes that Beiderman is dead, but Leo Beiderman is very much alive & is now famous. Partenza explains the hazards of the mission: the comet's rotational period means the Messiah crew only has a seven-hour window before the sun will 'rise' on the section they will be working on, and during the time that the sun is shining on that segment, there will be dangerous and volatile gas eruptions from the comet's interior. The Messiah crew needs to work quickly to avoid this hazard.

Two months later, the Messiah crew is ferried by the space shuttle Atlantis to dock with the orbital station on which the Messiah was constructed. A news crew explains the Messiah's construction, and that it is powered by a prototype nuclear propulsion system code-named Orion, that was originally developed by Russian engineers for nuclear warfare. This propulsion system will allow the Messiah's crew to reach the comet well in advance of its arriving close to Earth. Five months after the Messiah's departure, Caley's MSNBC news crew is meeting for another conference, discussing their ongoing coverage of the Messiah's mission. Everyone is asked about their role and latest contributions. Caley announces (to Beth's shock) that Jenny has been given a news anchor position for the coverage program. Being known as the one who broke the story on the comet, Jenny has likewise gained a great deal of national status.

Baker and Tanner maneuver the Messiah for landing, they must fly through a veritable minefield of rocks caught in the comet's tail. A few rocks hit the ship and some minor damage is sustained. They nonetheless manage to bring the Messiah safely down. They have just under six and a half hours before 'sunrise' on their part of the comet. Almost immediately the mission begins going awry. The moles prove to be unable to drill as deeply into the comet's surface, as quickly as is required. They are at just over an hour and a half before sunrise. Baker and Tanner, waiting anxiously in the spacecraft, know it is taking too long. As soon as the sun rises on the portion of the comet that the Messiah is on, the surface temperature will rise 350 degrees in minutes, creating enough pressure to expel jets of super-heated gas up through the surface. This will make the mission akin to working in a minefield.

On the comet surface, one of the moles gets stuck at 75 meters. The crew knows this is not deep enough; the warhead will just break pieces off the comet's surface. Commander Monash decides to descend into the shaft dug by the stuck mole to try and free it up, despite warnings from the other crew about the time pressure. The stuck mole finally begins drilling again and Commander Monash desperately climbs his tether cable so the crew can get back to the Messiah. The horizon is bridged. Tulchinsky shouts urgently for the surface crew to lower their visors' solar shields. Just as Monash clears the surface, a gas jet shoots him upward before he can lower his visor's shield. The full brilliance of the sun shines through his visor into his unprotected eyes. The rest of the crew reels him in by the tether cable and races desperately toward the Messiah landing module. Partenza is blown out into open space and lost. The rest of the crew barely manages to reach the landing module.

Col. Tulchinsky coordinates the arming of the nuclear warheads. President Back is seen in a White House office with Entrenkin, the cabinet, and a number of leading military Chiefs of Staff. A phone rings, and the member answering it looks at Beck grimly. President Beck goes on the air to deliver the news to the country. The warhead detonation only succeeded in breaking off a significantly large chunk of the comet-- 1.5 miles wide-- large enough to cause catastrophic damage to the planet in its own right. Both this chunk and larger, six-mile main piece of the comet are still heading straight toward Earth. Houston Mission Control cannot communicate further with the Messiah. Its condition and the status of the crew are unknown. Beck announces U.S. has also been excavating shelter caverns in the limestone cliffs of Missouri to use as a form of Noah's Ark. This shelter will be able to contain one million people, and enough animal and plant life to repopulate the Earth after all the dust settles. 200,000 people have been already selected-- leaders, doctors, scientists, engineers, teachers, soldiers and artists-- for participation in the Ark. In one month, a national lottery of 800,000 additional people will be chosen.

Jenny's MSNBC news program explains the lottery procedure. The lottery drawing will be on August 10th, picking 800,000 people by their social security numbers. The general lottery will exclude all men and women over the age of 50. Only the body of 200,000 selected individuals, including people needed for the rebuilding of society due to expertise in particular fields of study, will have any persons over 50 years old. As Jenny continues her report, the Beiderman and Hotchner families are watching together at the Beiderman home in Richmond. Their phone rings. Ellen Beiderman, Leo's mother, takes the call. The Beiderman family has been selected. It is clear that an instant rift has formed between the Hotchner (Sarah's) and Beiderman families.

On board the Messiah Tanner tries to get a sense of what the crew wants to do. Monash wants to go home & the others concur. Leo tries to use his status to get Sarah's family on the list. He gets married to Sarah. But when the National guard arrives, Sarah's family is not on the list. Sarah refuses to leave. Leo goes with his parents to the lime mountains. Jenny's mother Robin takes her own life. Jenny laces into her father, taking out all her long pent-up frustration at Jason having left Robin in the first place, out on him. She gloats when Jason mentions that Chloe, frightened for her own life, has ran home to her mother. Jenny cruelly tells her father that she feels like an orphan. Jason comes to Jenny's office & says she is not an orphan & shows her the pictures of them together. Jenny leaves.

as the Beiderman family reaches the caves, Leo grows some balls & decides to go back for Sarah. His dad bids his good luck!! the Titan missile strike has just been launched at the two comets, that are now 14 hours away from impact. Jenny goes on the air for a news report to cover the missile strike. Cut to President Beck at the Oval Office to deliver the results. The missiles have failed to deflect the comets off course. Earth has exhausted all options to prevent direct impact, and massive casualties are now inevitable.

Beiderman, the smaller fragment of the comet, will impact at 4:37 Eastern Daylight Time, striking in the Atlantic Ocean a short distance off of Cape Hatteras. A massive tsunami will be formed, racing toward the US Eastern Seaboard faster than the speed of sound. All settlements on the east coast, including the megalopolis cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta and Miami, will be wiped out and destroyed.

The main body of the comet, Wolf, will strike land in Western Canada several hours later. This will be a full Extinction Level Event. Within two days after impact, dust and debris will fill the sky and create an effect similar to a 'nuclear winter' that will make the skies dark for two years. Without sunlight reaching Earth's surface, all plant life will die, followed by all animal life. But on board the Messiah, Captain Tanner has come up with one last option. He calls the crew together to explain his plan. They can do nothing about the Beiderman fragment, but he believes they can still stop the main Wolf comet and give Earth hope for survival. Gas eruptions have created a very large fissure vent in the comet's surface leading well into its interior. The Messiah has four nuclear warheads remaining. If they can get these warheads into that Vent, the comet should be blown into fragments far too small.

Tulchinsky and Simon know that the Messiah is dangerously low on both life-support and remaining propellant fuel. It is not likely they can get into the cargo bay, or properly maneuver the Messiah for a second landing on the comet surface... much less get back off the surface once the warheads are planted. It is a suicide mission; the Messiah making a kamikaze run into the comet's interior and detonating the warheads. The crew is grim at this reality, but all quickly accept their pending fate. As the final evacuations are underway Jenny gives her seat to Beth & goes to meet Jason at their beach house. Leo finds a Bike & looks for Sarah in a traffic jam. He finds her & her parents make her leave with her infant brother to the mountains.

Time has run out. The Beiderman comet fragment breaks Earth's atmosphere and rushes for impact. Everyone for miles can see it race out past the coastline before it plunges deep into the Atlantic Ocean. A titanic mushroom cloud roars upward and outward from the point of impact. The skies turn dark; birds tossed helplessly about in the air as the tsunami begins to race inexorably toward the eastern coast. At the Lerner beach house, Jenny gives a brief sob of fear before Jason pulls her head against his chest and closes his eyes. The tsunami strikes the coastline and begins its run of devastation. We're treated to the obligatory scenario of New York City being destroyed; the final shot showing the city immersed under water save for the very tops of the World Trade Center; the broken-off head of the Statue of Liberty bouncing like a dropped basketball down Wall Street.

On the Virginia coast, people have abandoned their cars, racing about in all directions, screaming frantically in a mad rush for higher ground. A few simply stand outside their cars and wait to perish. Among them are Chuck and Vicky Hotchner, holding and stroking each other for a final moment of comfort. Leo and Sarah are part of a small crowd that have gotten off the road, racing for higher ground among the hills.

The Messiah has made final preparations for their interception of the Wolf Comet. The crew members have asked for their families to be brought to the Mission Control Center in Houston so they can say final goodbyes. Baker's husband and daughter, and Simon's fiance are on standby. But Commander Monash's wife is still on route and hasn't arrived yet... and Tanner's two sons were on active Naval duty and couldn't be reached. Accepting this, Tanner gives a quiet prayer to his late wife, saying he's coming home to her at last.

Baker and Simon say their final goodbyes tearfully. Transmission is just about to be terminated when officers come rushing to the control room with Mariette Monash in tow. She reaches the control room in the nick of time, holding her baby son, who she's named Oren in her husband's honor. Commander Monash, although still blind, can hear Mariette and Oren Jr. He gives them an emotional farewell as Col. Tulchinsky sets the warhead timers and Baker and Tanner calculate trajectory for the final interception run. They say farewell to each other; Baker closing her eyes and Simon closing his as Captain Tanner flies the Messiah through the vent into the comet's interior. The warheads detonate, shattering the Wolf comet into millions of tiny fragments. Leo, Sarah, and Sarah's baby sister are among a group that have gotten to the top of the highest hill they could find, barely escaping the tsunami. They watch as the shattered fragments create a firework-like light show in the sky.

Deep Impact closes with President Beck delivering an impassioned speech to a huge crowd in Washington D.C. after the waters of the Atlantic Ocean have receded and settled back into the ocean basin. Acknowledging the incalculable losses of lives in America, South America, Europe and Africa, President Beck tells his people that they must remember those who died for them and carry on with their rebuilding of the human way of life. The camera pans out for the final shot showing the U.S. Capitol building under reconstruction as the people gathered there cheer.