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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Robbyn Burger (written by) and
Scott Sturgeon (written by)
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Release Date:
16 February 1997 (USA) more
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Tagline:
The End Of The World Is Just Beginning. more
Plot:
With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Primetime Emmy. Another 4 nominations more
User Comments:
Its a good story if the technicalities don't make you throw up first. more (35 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Michael Biehn ... FEMA Director Jack Wallach

Annabella Sciorra ... Dr. Lily McKee

Zachary Charles ... Elliot McKee (as Zachary B. Charles)

Don Franklin ... Ben Dodd

Carlos Gómez ... Adam Marquez (as Carlos Gomez)

Michael Weatherly ... Dr. Matthew Rogers

Jensen Daggett ... Dr. Valerie Brennan
Anne-Marie Johnson ... Karen Dodd
Frank McRae ... Lloyd Morgan (as Frank Mcrae)

Denis Arndt ... President

Gerry Becker
John Lindsey
Anthony Zerbe ... Dr. Charles Napier
Brian Hill ... Max (as Brian Alan Hill)

Christopher Murphy ... A.J.
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Asteroid: The Sky is Falling (Philippines: English title) (video title)
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Runtime:
Finland:123 min (video release) (1998) | Canada:120 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Parts of the show were filmed in Denver, Colorado and at the time the University Hills Mall was slated for demolition. For the mass destruction after math scenes, they used areas of the mall which had been demolished already and actually blew a few more things up themselves. Concerned citizens nearby thought the black smoke they were seeing was indicative of a real emergency and promoted over 100 calls/minute to 911. more
Goofs:
Errors in geography: Dallas and Fort Worth are shown to be near mountains. There are no mountains within hundreds of miles of Dallas-Fort Worth. The cities are surrounded by forests, fields, or sprawling suburbs. more
Movie Connections:
References Independence Day (1996) more

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9 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Its a good story if the technicalities don't make you throw up first., 27 September 2000
Author: spacepup from Socorro, NM, USA

Being an astrophysics major, the first hour of this movie made me want to throw-up over the inaccuracies. Every scene involving a telescope was inaccurate for any modern observatory. ( Telescopes have been guided by computers for some time now, especially at observatories that get funding as the one depicted.) It gets better after that. and if you don't know a lick of science then it wont bother you anyway. The plot is pretty cheesy at times. (I don't think the FEMA director would really jump onto a burning building.) But it is a good story about human drama. I think they did an o.k. job portraying how people would react in a situation like this.

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