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5.2After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
Released: 1979-10-19107 minDir: Ronald NeameScience Fiction, Thriller, ActionBudget: $16.0MBox office: $12.6M
Cast
- Sean Connery as Paul Bradley
- Natalie Wood as Tatiana Donskaya
- Karl Malden as Harry Sherwood
- Brian Keith as Dr. Dubov
- Martin Landau as General Adlon
- Trevor Howard as Sir Michael Hughes
Themes
- new york city
- france
- nasa
- meteor
- disaster
- hong kong
- destruction
- united nations
- world trade center
- avalanche
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Ratings
IMDb
5.1/10
9,089 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
5%
Metacritic
27/100
- Year
- 1979
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 nomination total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- Cold War
- Director
- Ronald Neame
- Screenwriter
- Edmund H. North
- Cast member
- Bibi Besch
- Composer
- Laurence Rosenthal
- Production company
- American International Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Paul Lohmann
- Narrative location
- New York City
- Duration
- 108
- FilmAffinity ID
- 242105
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1979-10-19
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Sound
- distributed by
- Netflix
- title
- Meteor
- capital cost
- 16000000
- box office
- 8400000
- review score
- 5%
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