A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.

• Paramount Pictures
• DreamWorks Pictures
• Robert Duvall
• Téa Leoni
• Elijah Wood
• Vanessa Redgrave
• Morgan Freeman
• Maximilian Schell
• Leelee Sobieski
• James Cromwell