Search - Deep Impact [Collector's Edition] on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations Movie Release: 1998 DVD Release: 10/05/2004 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 1 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Disaster Film See Also: Deep Impact, Deep Impact [Circuit City Exclusive] [Checkpoint], Deep Impact [Blu-ray]

Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker) directed this science-fiction disaster drama about the possible extinction of human life after a comet is discovered headed toward Earth with the collision only one year away. Ambitious MSNBC reporter Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni) stumbles onto the story, prompting a White House press conference. United States President Beck (Morgan Freeman) announces the government's solution: a team of astronauts will travel to the comet and destroy it. The team leader aboard the spaceship Messiah is Spurgeon Tanner (Robert Duvall), who was once the last man to walk on the moon. However, the mission fails, splitting off a chunk of the comet, now due to land in the Atlantic with the impact sending a 350-foot tidal wave flooding 650 miles inland, destroying New York and other cities. The larger part of the comet, hitting in Canada, will trigger an E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event), not unlike a "nuclear winter" as dust clouds block out the sun and bring life to an end. President Beck reveals Plan B: a cavernous underground retreat constructed to hold one million Americans, with most to be selected through a national lottery. Since teenage amateur astronomer Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood) discovered the comet, his family gets a pass to enter the cave, but his girlfriend Sarah (Leelee Sobieski) and her parents will be left behind. Meanwhile, still in space, Spurgeon Tanner devises a plan for a kamikaze-styled operation that could possibly save the Earth. Special visual effects by Scott Farrar and Industrial Light & Magic. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

Robert Duvall - Spurgeon Tanner
Téa Leoni - Jenny Lerner
Elijah Wood - Leo Biederman
Vanessa Redgrave - Robin Lerner
Morgan Freeman - President Beck
Leelee Sobieski - Sarah Hotchner

Mimi Leder's meteor-headed-for-earth disaster film Deep Impact is revisited on DVD with this special edition that boasts a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. English and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1, and a second English soundtrack has been recorded in Dolby Digital Surround. English subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a commentary track recorded by Leder and her special effects creator supervisor Scott Farrar, three different featurettes covering various aspects of the production, trailers, and a still photo gallery. This is a first-rate release from Paramount. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide