Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood) is a 17 year-old boy who discovers and takes the first picture of a comet heading towards Earth. We follow various characters, but the plot is the same: after the mission to stop the comet fails, they have no more hope; the president reveals that every Country in the world has been building underground safe shelters, so there will be a lottery to choose the Americans that will be accepted inside. Many people have been pre-selected because considered important for some reason.
Not a bad movie, it had its moments for sure, although not one that I want to watch again. Jenny Lerner (Téa Leoni) is a journalist who ‘accidentally’ bumps into this story, kept secret at first at the President’s order (Morgan Freeman). Spurgeon Tanner (Robert Duvall) is an old astronaut, on a mission to save Earth.
Rittenhouse (James Cromwell) resigns from office to stay with his family because he knew what was going to happen before the population was informed. That was a great scene.
Beth (Laura Innes) is a journalist with a little daughter. When the time comes, Jenny is one of the preselected people who can save themselves, but she gives Beth her place; she stays to die with her father.
Leo was preselected too, as well as his family, but he has a girlfriend, Sarah, and doesn’t want to leave her, so he marries her hoping that her family will now be safe too, but she’s not in the least. Leo has to go with his family, without Sarah, but at some point he goes back for her. She has left with her family so he takes a bike and goes looking for her. Mega traffic jam, they’ll never move from there, but Leo finds her immediately. Sarah’s parents are grateful to see him and urge Sarah to go with him and take with her her little baby-brother. They know they’ll die but now they have hope that their son and daughter might make it.
One thing that I liked, although not really realistic in this world, is that there were no scene of mass hysteria.
The astronauts are still in space. They have families and loved ones on Earth so they give their lives in an attempt to save them: a suicide mission, crashing their shuttle into the big comet, destroying it into small bits. They save the world. Only the small comet crashed, killing millions of people, but not Leo and Sarah, they made it.
Robin (Vanessa Redgrave) is Jenny’s mother, and Jason (Maximilian Schell) is her father. Jon Favreau plays Gus Partenza, the first to die. Denise Crosby played Sarah’s mom.
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