A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.

• DirectorMimi Leder
• Release8 May 1998
• Genre
  Action / Drama
• Duration2h
• Budget$75,000,000
• Revenue$349,464,664
• Rate
  

  6.229
  3071 reviews
• Productions

  Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, The Zanuck/Brown Company