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Deep Impact is a 1998 disaster film/science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures. The film is directed by Mimi Leder. Its cast is headed by Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, Morgan Freeman, Leelee Sobieski and Robert Duvall. The interrelated stories of the plot describe events which take place surrounding the discovery of the fictional "Comet Wolf-Biederman," due to impact Earth, and its subsequent approach to our planet.

Though producer Steven Spielberg optioned the Arthur C. Clarke novel The Hammer of God for film production, the film bears no resemblance to the novel, and Clarke was not given any credit on the film. Whereas Deep Impact is depicted in a setting roughly contemporary to the release of the film, Clarke's The Hammer of God is set in the future. While the film deals with the pending impact of a comet on planet Earth, the novel is focused on the pending impact of an asteroid that is discovered by an astronomer on Mars. ( )

The film's taglines are Heaven and Earth are about to collide. and Oceans rise. Cities fall. Hope survives.

Cast

Robert Duvall
- Captain Spurgeon "Fish" Tanner
Tea Leoni - Jenny Lerner
Vanessa Redgrave
- Robin Lerner
Maximilian Schell
- Jason Lerner
Morgan Freeman
- President Tom Beck
Elijah Wood
- Leo Biederman
Leelee Sobieski
- Sarah Hotchner
James Cromwell
- Alan Rittenhouse
Ron Eldard
- Oren Monash
Jon Favreau
- Dr. Gus Partenza
Mary McCormack
- Andrea "Andy" Baker
Blair Underwood
- Mark Simon
Richard Schiff
- Don Biederman
Laura Innes
- Beth Stanley
Kurtwood Smith
- Otis Hefner
Dougray Scott
- Eric Vennekor
Denise Crosby
- Vicky Hotchner
Charles Martin Smith
- Dr. Marcus Wolf

Plot summary

Leo Biederman (Wood) and Sarah Hotchner (Sobieski), two teenage astronomy club members, discover a new object amongst the stars at night. Little do they know that it is a comet on a direct collision course for Earth. Leo takes a photo and mails it and the co-ordinates to astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf (C.M. Smith). Wolf uses the co-ordinates to find the object from his observatory. He discovers its deadly trajectory, and attempts to contact his colleagues, but is unable to. He saves the data to a disk, labelling it with his and Leo's surnames, but dies in a car crash on the way from the observatory to alert his colleagues.

One year later, Jenny Lerner (Leoni), a field reporter for MSNBC in Washington, DC, finds out about a government secret called "Ellie" that is connected to President Tom Beck (Freeman). Initially deducing it as an affair, she confronts President Beck as to its meaning. She finds out it is really "ELE", code for extinction-level event. President Beck invites her to a press conference, where he announces the comet's existence. The comet, seven miles wide, is large enough to wipe out civilization if it hits the Earth. President Beck announces that NASA is going to send a crew of astronauts on the spaceship Messiah to the comet, now named "Wolf-Biederman" after Dr. Wolf and Leo. Led by Captain Spurgeon Tanner (Duvall), the mission of Messiah is to destroy the comet before it gets too close to Earth, using an arsenal of atomic bombs.

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