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When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.
Theatrical
Jul 1, 1998
DVD / Blu-ray
Apr 20, 1999
Box Office
$553.8M
Budget
$140.0M
Return
4.0x
Director
Writers
Producers
Music
Studio
Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Valhalla Motion Pictures
Keywords
saving the world
paris, france
moon
washington dc, usa
loss of loved one
cataclysm
asteroid
self sacrifice
nasa
space marine
u.s. air force
race against time
natural disaster
daughter
space
end of the world
disaster
wedding
astronaut
duringcreditsstinger
disaster movie
heroic mission
aggressive
daring rescue
space centre
somber
bold
cliché
Cast
Full credits →B
Bruce Willis
Harry S. Stamper
B
Billy Bob Thornton
Dan Truman
Ben Affleck
A.J. Frost
L
Liv Tyler
Grace Stamper
W
Will Patton
Chick
S
Steve Buscemi
Rockhound
W
William Fichtner
Willie Sharp
O
Owen Wilson
Oscar
M
Michael Clarke Duncan
Bear
P
Peter Stormare
Lev Andropov
K
Ken Hudson Campbell
Max
J
Jessica Steen
Jennifer Watts
Keith David
General Kimsey
C
Chris Ellis
Flight Director Clark
J
Jason Isaacs
Ronald Quincy
G
Grayson McCouch
Gruber
C
Clark Heathcliffe Brolly
Noonan
M
Marshall R. Teague
Colonel Davis
A
Anthony Guidera
Co-Pilot Tucker
G
Greg Collins
Halsey
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* Kyle Buchanan, , Vulture, (2013/06).
[http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/hollywood-blockbusters-cant-stop-evoking-911.html “Is It Possible to Make a Hollywood Blockbuster Without Evoking 9/11?”]
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When the World Trade towers fell on September 11, 2001, there was one refrain I heard over and over again, a common response that was both automatic and indicting: “It looked like something out of a ] movie.” More specifically, the explosions and citywide carnage resembled Armageddon, the Bay-directed action vehicle that had come out four summers prior and contained scenes of epic metropolitan mayhem that were still something of a cinematic novelty at the time. We pray that nothing on the scale of ] will ever happen again, but if something actually did, we’d now have a sickening number of summer ] to compare it to. This weekend’s ] is only the latest film this year to exploit familiar 9/11 imagery in ways that are far more extreme and blatant than anything we’ve seen on the big screen before, as though ] feels the need to out-9/11 itself. It’s lazy, it’s cheap, it’s deadening, and it needs to stop.
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