Deep Impact

Starring: Robert Duvall, Ta Leoni Director: Mimi Leder Original UK Premiere: 1998 Dvd Release: 27th November, 2000 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Deep Impact is a 1998 motion picture directed by Mimi Leder starring Tea Leoni, Morgan Freeman, Elijah Wood & Robert Duvall. The inter-related stories of the film describe events which take place surrounding the discovery of a comet named Wolf-Biederman due to impact the earth & its subsequent approach to our planet. A competing space impact film, Armageddon, was released at approximately the same time as Deep Impact ; this was also during a time when two movies featuring volcanos exploding were released side by side. Deep Impact is generally considered to be more realistic than Armageddon & had a stronger emphasis on the effect on society. Posters Of Deep Impact

A great big rock hits the earth, & lots of people die. Thats pretty much all there is to Deep Impact, & most of that was in the trailer. Can a major Hollywood movie really squeak by with such a slender excuse for a premise? The old disaster-movie king, cheese-meister Irwin Allen , would have made a kitsch classic out of this, with Charlton Heston, rather than a resigned & mumbly Robert Duvall, as the veteran astronaut who risks several lives trying to blow up the comet thats headed right this way! As stiffly directed by Mimi Leder, this thick slice of ham errs on the side of solemnity. It may be the most earnest end-of-the-world picture since Stanley Kramers atomic-doom drama On the Beach. There are a couple of classic melodramatic flourishes: an estranged father & daughter who share a tearful reconciliation as a Godzilla-sized tidal wave looms on the horizon; & an astronaut, communicating on video with his loved ones back on Earth, who follows whispered instructions from a buddy lurking just off camera, so that his little girl wont realise that hes been struck blind. Deep Impact stars Morgan Freeman as the president of the United States.

Robert Duvall is an actor, born on January 5, 1931 in San Diego, California. He studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. His screen debut was as Boo Radley in the critically acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird but his breakout role was a decade later as Tom Hagen in The Godfather & The Godfather Part II. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in A Civil Action & for his role as Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for The Great Santini & The Apostle & won for his role in Tender Mercies. He directed the critically acclaimed The Apostle, about a preacher on the run from the law & Assassination Tango, a thriller about one of his favorite hobbies, tango. He now lives with his partner Luciana Pedraza. Lonesome Dove, a televised western saga.   at the Internet Movie Database Posters Of A Civil Action

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Mimi Leder is an American film director. She was the first female graduate of the American Film Institute. Born in 1957 to parents Paul Leder & Hannah Werntz, Leder began her career as a television script supervisor, working on such series as Spawn of the Slithis & Hill Street Blues. Shortly after working on the television drama Under the Influence in 1986, Leder began directing L,A. Law. Leder continued television work during the late 1980s & early 1990s, including work on the 1988 television movie Nightingales & the series China Beach, for which she was nominated for several Emmy awards. In 1994 she directed & co-produced nearly a dozen episodes of ER, which earned her an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 1995 & 1996. Throughout the late 1990s & early 2000s, she directed several blockbuster dramatic films, including Deep Impact, Pay It Forward & John Doe. In 2004 she began work as director on the action/adventure film, Smoke & Mirrors. Leder has one daughter with husband Gary Werntz. Posters Of Deep Impact

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