Kenny Bates, Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Hensleigh, Gale Anne Hurd, Chad Oman, Pat Sandston, Jim Van Wyck, Barry H. Waldman
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Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Will Patton, Steve Buscemi, William Fichtner, Owen Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Peter...
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1 July 1998 USA
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The Criterion Collection, Walt Disney Home Video, American Broadcasting Company, Touchstone Pictures, Pioneer, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Gaumont Buena Vista International, Columbia Pictures, Buena Vista Pictures
A low earth orbit space station is in the middle of a repair mission with the space shuttle when an unforeseen meteor shower obliterates them both. This sudden event sends fireballs hurtling to Earth and scientists scurrying to telescopes. An amateur astronomer is the first to spy a gigantic fireball headed towards the planet and notifies NASA.
Turner informs the president of the asteroid and describes it as being "the size of Texas," a planet-killer. With eighteen days to impact, NASA frantically tries to find a solution but ends up turning to an outside contractor. Harry Stamper and his team of ragamuffin roughneck oilmen are called upon to save the planet as only they can.