A comet is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. As doomsday nears, the human race prepares for the worst.A comet is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. As doomsday nears, the human race prepares for the worst.A comet is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. As doomsday nears, the human race prepares for the worst.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 14 nominations
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- TriviaA line was edited in the President's press conference scene. President Beck stated "Life will go on, we will prevail." Originally, President Beck said "Life will go on, we will prevail. This is not Armageddon." The producers later realized that the movie was going to be in box-office competition with the movie Armageddon (1998).
- GoofsThe comet is depicted as nearly white when in reality comets are among the darkest objects in the Solar System, normally reflecting about 3% of the light that hits them (in comparison, Earth reflects about 39%). The movie producers were aware of this fact, but special effects technology of the time made it extremely difficult to depict a black object against black space.
- Quotes
Alan Rittenhouse: I know you're just a reporter, but you used to be a person, right?
- Crazy creditsThe opening DreamWorks logo ends with the clouds in the logo fading away to show the stars in space in the background, and the title words DEEP IMPACT are filled with a view of the Earth.
- ConnectionsEdited into Meine Schwester Maria (2002)
- SoundtracksLa Bohème
Written by Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Giacosa, and Luigi Illica (as Luigi Illicia)
Performed by Mario Serini and Nicolai Gedda
Featured review
"Deep Impact" was one of two collision-related movies released in summer, 1998 (the other was "Armageddon"). Whereas the latter had no other purpose than to have Bruce Willis kick ass, the former was actually quite good. More than just an action movie, this one shows the human aspect of everything. One of the most interesting aspects is Pres. Tom Beck (Morgan Freeman). Whereas we usually expect black men in movies to be macho, this guy talks about his belief in God. I guess that the only thing of which I would have liked to see more would have been the shelters, but I guess that such an aspect would probably occupy an entire movie on its own. All in all, a really good movie.
- lee_eisenberg
- Jan 11, 2006
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- Release date
- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Impacto profundo
- Filming locations
- Prince William Pkwy SR 234, Manassas, Virginia, USA(packed freeway scene)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $75,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $140,464,664
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $41,152,375
- May 10, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $349,464,664
- Runtime2 hours
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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