Deep Impact Movie Review

Starring: Tea Leoni, Robert Duvall, Morgan Freeman

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Several individuals discover a new comet, dubbed Wolf-Biederman, that turns out to be headed for a direct collision with Earth. Jenny Lerner (Leoni), an NBC correspondent, pursues the story she thinks involves a minister's sexual peccadiloes, only to find it's a much bigger and hotter tale. Stately President Tom Beck (Freeman) tries to maintain order and control (let's have an election campaign between him Josiah Bartlet!), while sending a manned ship out to destroy the comet, commanded by Capt. Spurgeon "Fish" Tanner (Duvall). Meanwhile, plans are made to select 800,000 citizens at random to wait out the disaster in mountain caves with 200,000 scientists, artists, and doctors if/when the comet strikes. Director Mimi Leder made this film the year after her 1997 hit "The Peacemaker," and though a decent rather than outstanding piece of work, it is generally acknowledged to be better than the other 1998 disaster-from-space entry, "Armageddon." Special effects are fair, though plotting veers into the "On the Beach"-style lachrymose. Supporting cast includes Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, and James Cromwell.
David Loftus, Resident Scholar

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Plot
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Explore/1st contact Yes
Explore plotlet: - "primitive"/present day space travel
Environmental disaster? - surviving a post environmental/nuclear disaster - dealing with a crashing asteroid

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - journalist
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - blonde
Hair type - (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type - skinny (woman)
Events of movie makes character more... - sad
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor? - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
How much in movie? - 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - natural phenomena
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 20%

Setting
Earth setting: - near future (later in 21st century)
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Mountains? Yes
Big cities? Yes
Kind of city - Beautiful sparkling advanced city

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Any profanity? - Occasional swearing

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