Deep Impact Page #4

Synopsis: Journalist Jenny Lerner is assigned to look into the background of Secretary Alan Rittenhouse who abruptly resigned from government citing his wife's ill health. She learns from his secretary that Rittenhouse was having an affair with someone named Ellie but when she confronts him, his strange reaction leads her to reconsider her story. In fact, a comet, discovered the previous year by high school student Leo Biederman and astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf, is on a collision course with the Earth, an Extinction Level Event. A joint US-Russian team is sent to destroy the comet but should it fail, special measures are to be put in place to secure the future of mankind. As the space mission progresses, many individuals deal with their fears and ponder their future.
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Mimi Leder
Production: Paramount Pictures
  5 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
40
Rotten Tomatoes:
45%
PG-13
Year:
1998
120 min
1,871 Views


that you want to say to me.

You have to get over it.

Life goes on.

Life goes on? OK.

What's so funny?

Life...

We'll see.

What's so funny about "life goes on"?

Life going on?

I don't think it's funny that life goes on.

Dad, you need to get

back together with Mom.

She's all alone in the world,

and she needs you right now OK?

Jenny.

I just got married.

I know, I know, and I'm sorry.

Chloe, this has nothing to do with you.

Well, it has to do something

for me, for Christ's sake.

This is insane.

- I have to apologize for my daughter.

- That is not your fault.

I'm sorry. I have to go.

I know you think I'm a bad person.

I'm really not.

And I don't hate you.

I just--I gotta go.

'Cause for her, it doesn't--

Excuse me.

Jenny. Hey.

What are you doing here?

Uh, yeah.

Did Stuart send you here

without telling me?

No.

If Stuart thinks he can push

me out of the White House--

Ms Lerner. Hi, Beth.

Right this way.

I've got you right down here.

Excuse me, please.

OK.

He'll find you for the first question.

Then you're on your own.

Hey, how are you?

Ladies and gentlemen.

Ladies and gentlemen, please

The president will begin

by addressing the nation.

Please hold your questions

until he's finished his remarks.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the President of the United States.

Hello, everybody.

- Mr President.

- Hello.

Good evening.

A few minutes ago

the United States ambassadors

to every country in the world

told the leaders of those nations

what I am about to tell you.

It's a bit complicated,

so it will take some time,

so I hope

you will bear with me,

hear what I have to say.

A little over a year ago,

Marcus Wolfand Leo Biederman,

working on a mountain top in Arizona...

Nobody say anything.

saw something in the night sky

that caused them great concern.

A comet.

But the comet was, well...

There was a remote possibility

that the comet was on a path

that could bring it into

direct contact with the Earth.

Now...

we get hit all the time

by rocks and meteors,

some of them the size of cars,

some no bigger than your hand.

But the comet we discovered

is the size of New York City.

From the north side

of Central Park to the Battery.

About 7 miles long.

Put another way,

this comet is larger than Mount Everest.

It weighs 500 billion tons.

Now, chances are...

Astrophysicists, geologists

and climatologists.

Where the hell

is Science?

Check with Tokyo, Tel Aviv.

I want everybody.

The Hale-Bopp stand-ups.

Graphics! I need graphics!

Comets begin far out in space.

They're what's left over

from the creation

of the solar system

after the planets were formed

billions of years ago.

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Bruce Joel Rubin

Bruce Joel Rubin is an American screenwriter best known for the supernatural romance Ghost, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1990 psychological thriller Jacob's Ladder. more…

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