Deep Impact Review

Deep Impact


Release Date: 18th June 1998 - Australia


Production Companies
Paramount Pictures (presents)
DreamWorks SKG (presents)
Zanuck/Brown Productions
Manhattan Project

Amblin Entertainment (copyright holder)

Distribution
Paramount Pictures Australia


Genre: Sci-Fi

Rating: M

Runtime: 121 minutes


Budget: $75,000,000

Box Office Gross: $349,464,664 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary
A teenager named Leo Biederman, a member of his school's astronomy class and his teacher, Dr. Marcus Wolf, discovered an unknown object while gazing into the stars at night. What they didn't realise was that they'd found a comet. It is heading towards Earth on a collision course. Later, his teacher dies in a car crash while reporting his findings. One year later, a journalist named Jenny Lerner is busy investigating the resignation

of a member of the

President's cabinet when

she is brought before the

President and can

convince him to start

a press conference to tell

the world what is happening.

Many feared the worst when the President announced the meteor's existence as they contemplated their fates and had to deal with their fears. Meanwhile, a joint team of US-Russian astronauts gets sent to destroy the comet. If they fail, the future of humanity will be at stake if it is to survive.


Cast
Robert Duvall - Capt. Spurgeon "Fish" Tanner
Tea Leoni - Jenny Lerner
Elijah Wood - Leo Biederman
Morgan Freeman - Tom Beck
Vanessa Redgrave - Robin Lerner
Maximilian Schell - Jason Lerner
Leelee Sobieski - Sarah Hotchner
James Cromwell - Al Rittenhouse
Ron Eldard - Dr. Oren Monash
Jon Favreau - Dr. Gus Partenza
Mary McCormack - Andrea "Andy" Baker
Blair Underwood - Mark Simon
Laura Innes - Beth Stanley
Richard Schiff - Don Biederman
Dougray Scott - Eric Vennekor
Gary Werntz - Chuck Hotchner
Bruce Weitz - Stuart Caley
Betsy Brantley - Ellen Biederman
O'Neal Compton - Morten Entrekin
Rya Kihlstedt - Chloe
Aleksandr Baluev - Mikhail Tulchinsky
Caitlin & Amanda Fein - Caitlin Stanley
Joe Urla - Ira Moskatel
Una Damon - Marianne Duclos
Mark Moses - Tim Urbanski
Derek de Lint - Theo Van Sertema
Charles Dumas - Jeff Worth
Alimi Ballard - Bobby Rhue
W. Earl Brown - McCloud
Katie Hagan - Jane Biederman
Denise Crosby - Vicky Hotchner
Jason Dohring - Jason
Hannah Leder - Holly Rittenhouse
Tucker Smallwood - Ivan Brodsky
Merrin Dungey - Shelia Bradley
Kimberly Huie - Wendy Mogel
Francis X. McCarthy - General Scott
Ellen Bry - Stofky
Concetta Tomei - Patricia Ruiz
Mike O'Malley - Mike Perry
Kurtwood Smith - Otis Hefler
Charlie Hartshock - David Baker
Jennifer Jotsyn - Mariette Monash
Don Handfield - Dwight Tanner
Jason Frasca - Steve Tanner
Stephanie Batton - Britanny Baker

Charles Martin Smith - Dr. Marcus Wolf

Crew
Director - Mimi Leder
Writers - Bruce Joel Robin and Michael Tolkin

Associate Producer/Unit Production Manager -

D. Scott Easton
Executive Producers - Joan Bradshaw,
Walter F. Parkes and Steven Spielberg
Producers - David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck

NASA Technical Advisor - Gerry Griffin

Comet Advisers - Carolyn & Eugene Shoemaker,

Chris Luchini and Joshua Cowell

White House Advisor - Bob Snow

Casting Director - Allison Jones

Additional Casting - Judith Bouley

Production Designer - Leslie Dilley

Art Directors - Dennis Bradford, Gary Kosko,

Andrew Neskoromny and Thomas Valentine

Set Decorator - Peg Cummings
Costume Designer - Ruth Meyers
Director of Photography - Dietrich Lohmann

Camera Operators: Los Angeles Second Unit -

Anthony Gaudioz, Joseph F. Valentine,

Joe Ciccio and Josh Bleibtrau

Additional Photography - Don Burgess

Production Supervisor - Peter M. Tobyansen

Unit Production Manager: Second Unit -

Cherylanne Martin

First Assistant Director - K.C. Colwell

First Assistant Director: Second Unit -

Michele 'Shelley' Ziegler

Second Assistant Director: Washington D.C.

Unit - Alison C. Rosa

Additional Second Second Assistant Director -

Basil Grillo

Second Unit Director/Director of Photography:

Washington D.C. Unit - Mark Vargo

Second Unit Director/Director of Photography: 

Los Angeles Second Unit - Tom Priestley Jr.

Stunt Coordinators - M. James Arnett

and Charles Croughwell
Special Effects Coordinator - Michael Lantieri

Practical Effects Supervisor: ILM - Geoff Heron

Wire Effects Coordinator - Robert Harman

Visual Effects Supervisor - Scott Farrar

Visual Effects Co-Supervisor: ILM - Bill George

Visual Effects Producer: ILM - Denise Ream

Visual Effects Art Director: ILM - Alex Jaeger

Digital Effects Supervisor: Pacific Title/

Mirage Digital - David Sosalla

Model Project Supervisor: ILM - Brian Gernard

Chief Model Maker: ILM - Carol Bauman

Miniatures Director of Photography: ILM -

Pat Sweeney

CG Pre-Production Supervisor: ILM -

Kevin Rafferty

CG Supervisors: ILM - Michael Bauer and

Ben Snow

CG Sequence Supervisors: ILM - Joel Aron,

Greg Killmaster, Tom Martinek,

Erik Mattsson and Henry Preston

Sabre Supervisor: ILM - Pablo Helman

Film Editors - Paul Cichocki and
David Rosenbloom

Supervising Sound Editors - J. Paul Huntsman

and Walter Newman

ADR Editor - Kimberly Ellen Love

Special Sound Designer - John P. Fasal

Re-Recording Mixers - Anna Behlmer,

Andy Nelson and Tom Perry
Music - James Horner

Music Editor - Joe E. Rand


Review
Hi there! It is your favourite critic, Film Guru Lad. Today's Valentine's Day. An annual holiday is when people fall in love with each other, and couples spend time together on this holiday. I won't have time to review a romantic movie, including old classics like Casablanca. Instead, I'll publish a finished review of a feature devoid of romance called DEEP IMPACT. It's similar to another asteroid film, Armageddon, by Michael Bay. It is scientifically accurate and never has any humour but includes emotion and high intensity that makes it look more dramatic than the latter. The movie's storyline plays out realistically, along with the character-driven scenes. Most of the performances are good. The best actor in DEEP IMPACT is Morgan Freeman. He is so wonderful in his role as the President.

For those who want to see the flick DEEP IMPACT, it's not a cheesy summer blockbuster like Armageddon, but instead, a great disaster movie with a lot of experience that I reckon will bring teary eyes to the film-lovers. Happy Valentine's Day!

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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