Deep Core (2000)

Director:

Rodney McDonald

Writers:

Phillip J. Roth (story), Jim Christopher (screenplay)

Stars:

Craig Sheffer, Terry Farrell, Bruce McGill

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Craig Sheffer	...	Brian Goodman
Terry Farrell	...	Allison Saunders
Bruce McGill	...	Sam Dalton
Harry Van Gorkum	...	Alan Morrisey
Wil Wheaton	...	Rodney Bedecker
James Russo	...	Darryl Simmons
Ron Yuan	...	Chin Li
James Lew	...	Lou Chang
Kenneth Choi	...	Wayne Lung (as Ken Choi)
Dean Cameron	...	Head Engineer
Donald Li	...	Colonel Sun Po
Catherine Kwong	...	Phong Li
Joseph Patrick Kelly	...	M.I.B. #1
Dean Biasucci	...	M.I.B. #2
Gary Hershberger	...	Henry

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

peril | nuclear weapon | drilling machine | nuke | magma | 

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Taglines:

Adventure Never Ran So Deep

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Genres:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for action violence, language and brief sexuality

Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

USA

Language:

English Cantonese Spanish

Release Date:

21 October 2000 (South Korea)

Also Known As:

Deep Core 2000

Filming Locations:

Santa Clarita, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Unified Film Organization (UFO)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

When Rodney goes back to check on the nukes for the first time, he mentions that there are two "TK421" bombs and a "1138". TK421 was the stormtrooper number Han Solo used in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, and 1138 is a reference to THX 1138, an early George Lucas film.

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Connections

References Crack in the World (1965)

User Reviews

Awful: Predictable and Full of Clichés

Brian Goodman (Craig Sheffer) is a scientist specialized in drilling operations. He aborts a dangerous perforation, leaded by Alan Morrisey (Harry Van Gorkun) and Darryl Simmons (James Russo) and destroys the whole project and facilities. A few years later, he is working with his friends Sam Dalton (Bruce McGill) and Rodney Bedecker (Wil Wheaton, from Star Trek), when he detects an abnormal movement of the tectonic plates, provoked by Alan's new enterprise. Brian meets Alan, and together with Allison Saunders (Terry Farrel), a highly graduated scientist from MIT, try to stop the movement of underground layers of Earth. This flick is awful: very predictable and full of clichés. The characters are badly developed, the story is horrible and it does not work. The best part is the ironical dialog of a married couple, asking for information in a road bar. The Brazilian distributors called it `Catastrophe', maybe a hint regarding the terrible quality of this film. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): `Catástrofe' (`Catastrophe')