Deep Impact
by Mimi Leder, 1998
with Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni and Elijah Wood.
A teenage astronomer and his teacher discover an object
amongst the stars at night. Little do they know that it's a
comet on a direct collision course for earth. After the
teacher dies in a car crash trying to report his findings
the President announces the comet's existence. He also
states that there is no need to panic, because NASA is
going to send astronauts on the space mission, Messiah.
Their mission is to destroy the comet before it gets too
close to the earth. When Messiah backfires, the President
announces that special caves will have to be built, and the
government will have to have a lottery-of-fate to randomly
select 800,000 ordinary American citizens to go along with
200,000 scientists, soldiers, and other officials. These
1,000,000 people will be set aside to save the population
from extinction when the comet hits.
Laura Innes plays Beth Stanley.
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