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Armageddon (I) (1998)

PG_13  151 min  -  Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi   -  1 July 1998 (USA)
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When an asteroid the size of Texas is headed for Earth the world's best deep core drilling team is sent to nuke the rock from the inside.

Director:

Michael Bay

Writers:

Jonathan Hensleigh (screenplay), J.J. Abrams (screenplay), and 4 more credits »
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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Bruce Willis ...
Billy Bob Thornton ...
Ben Affleck ...
Liv Tyler ...
Will Patton ...
Steve Buscemi ...
William Fichtner ...
Owen Wilson ...
Michael Clarke Duncan ...
Peter Stormare ...
Ken Hudson Campbell Ken Hudson Campbell ...
Max (as Ken Campbell)
Jessica Steen ...
Keith David ...
Chris Ellis ...
Jason Isaacs ...
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Storyline

It is just another day at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a few astronauts were repairing a satellite until, out of nowhere, a series of asteroids came crashing into the shuttle, destroying it. These asteroids also decimated New York soon thereafter. Then, NASA discovered that there is an asteroid roughly the size of Texas heading towards the Earth, and when it does hit the Earth, the planet itself and all of its inhabitants will be obliterated, worse, the asteroid will hit the Earth in 18 days. Unfortunately, NASA's plans to destroy the asteroid are irrelevant. That is when the U.S. military decides to use a nuclear warhead to blow the asteroid to pieces. Then, scientists decide to blow the asteroid with the warhead inside the asteroid itself. The only man to do it, is an oil driller named Harry Stamper and his group of misfit drillers and geologists. As he and his drill team prepare for space excavation... Written by John Wiggins  

Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis

Plot Keywords:

Asteroid | Drill | NASA | Astronaut | Nuclear  | See more »

Taglines:

Heads Up! See more »

Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi disaster action, sensuality and brief language See all certifications »

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Russian

Release Date:

(USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Armageddon - Das jüngste Gericht See more »

Box Office

Budget:

$140,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$36,089,972 (USA) (5 July 1998) (3127 Screens)

Gross:

$251,200,000 (Worldwide) (20 December 1998) (except USA)
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Company Credits

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Technical Specs

Runtime:

 | USA: (director's cut)

Sound Mix:

DTS  | Dolby Digital  | SDDS

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1
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Did You Know?

Trivia

Director Cameo: [Michael Bay] as a NASA scientist. Shown after Carl asks to name the asteroid Dottie. See more »

Goofs

Errors in geography: The two crews are shown splitting up to walk to and board their respective shuttles. Launch pads 39A and 39B are three miles apart. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
[Camera shoots past the moon to slowly zoom in on the Earth]
Narrator: This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet.
[From behind the camera, a giant asteroid appears, speeding towards the Earth ahead of it]
Narrator: A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that.
[Blazing through the atmosphere, the asteroid impacts with a spectacular display of fire and destruction]
Narrator: It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when.
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Crazy Credits

Portions of the video of Grace Stamper and A.J. Frost's wedding are shown during the final credits. See more »

Connections

Referenced in "South Park: Imaginationland (#11.10)" (2007) See more »

Soundtracks

"La Grange"
Written by Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill
Performed by ZZ Top
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records, Inc.
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products See more »