After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.
- Nominated for 4 Oscars
- 15 wins & 40 nominations total
Ken Hudson Campbell
- Max
- (as Ken Campbell)
Clark Heathcliff Brolly
- Noonan
- (as Clark Brolly)
Marshall R. Teague
- Colonel Davis
- (as Marshall Teague)
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- TriviaNASA shows this film during their management training program. New managers are given the task of trying to spot as many errors as possible. At least 168 have been found.
- GoofsIt's explained in detail how the impact will cause a horrible freak tide, what it will do, and that one half of mankind will die in the nuclear winter. That's absolutely irrelevant. The asteroid has a diameter "the size of Texas," which means a volume of about 180 million cubic miles. Such an impact is called ELE (Extinction Level Event). A bigger part of the Pacific Ocean would evaporate immediately, so no matter if a wave or not. The earth would become "sterilized." So no life form will live long enough to die in a winter. (So it is nonsensical to compare that impact with the event 65 million years ago. It's much different).
- Crazy creditsPortions of the video of Grace Stamper and A.J. Frost's wedding are shown during the final credits.
- Alternate versionsCriterion's two-DVDs version features the longer director's cut with added dialogue and footage, including a scene between Harry Stamper and his father (played by Lawrence Tierney.) A second DVD with supplemental material is included, with additional deleted scenes, outtakes and bloopers.
Featured review
Steam, wind, sound and gravity on an asteroid flying through space? Yeah the director didn't really think this whole 'space thing' through (or I think he simply didn't care... he was just like: "Meh, let's just make it fun" ). And the movie is pretty fun, if you ignore the obvious inconsistencies and plot holes. Just take it like this: It's a movie of Bruce Willis and his team of misfits attempting to save the world by going to outer-space and blowing up a giant asteroid that's hurtling towards earth. PS. Liv Tyler at 21 y/o was unbelievably beautiful... she's distractingly gorgeous in the movie.
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- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Ngày Tận Thế
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $140,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $201,578,182
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $36,089,972
- Jul 5, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $553,712,773
- Runtime2hours31minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39: 1
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