--- title: 'Deep Impact (1998)' type: 'film' director: 'Mimi Leder' released: '1998-05-08' runtime_minutes: 120 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Science Fiction' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/deep-impact-1998' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Deep Impact (1998) 1998 · 120 min · Drama, Science Fiction · United States ## Synopsis Deep Impact is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film directed by Mimi Leder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, and starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, and Morgan Freeman. Steven Spielberg served as an executive producer of this film. It was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States and Canada, and by DreamWorks Pictures through United International Pictures internationally on May 8, 1998. The film depicts humanity's attempts to prepare for and destroy a 7-mile (11 km) wide comet set to collide with Earth and cause a mass extinction. ## Credits - **Director:** [Mimi Leder](https://cinepixo.com/people/mimi-leder) - **Screenplay:** [Bruce Joel Rubin](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruce-joel-rubin), [Michael Tolkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-tolkin) - **Original Music Composer:** [James Horner](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-horner) - **Producer:** [Richard D. Zanuck](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-d-zanuck), [David Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-brown) - **Director of Photography:** [Dietrich Lohmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/dietrich-lohmann) ## Cast - [Maximilian Schell](https://cinepixo.com/people/maximilian-schell) - [Don Handfield](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-handfield) - [Kurtwood Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/kurtwood-smith) - [Kimberly Huie](https://cinepixo.com/people/kimberly-huie) - [Elijah Wood](https://cinepixo.com/people/elijah-wood) - [Cynthia Ettinger](https://cinepixo.com/people/cynthia-ettinger) - [Tucker Smallwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/tucker-smallwood) - [Denise Crosby](https://cinepixo.com/people/denise-crosby) - [Derek de Lint](https://cinepixo.com/people/derek-de-lint) - [Aleksandr Baluev](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-baluev) - [Alimi Ballard](https://cinepixo.com/people/alimi-ballard) - [Jason Dohring](https://cinepixo.com/people/jason-dohring) - [Téa Leoni](https://cinepixo.com/people/tea-leoni) - [Bruce Weitz](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruce-weitz) - [Michael Winters](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-winters) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://www.deep-impact.com/ Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/deep-impact-1998 Film facts: Wikidata (Q49498); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.