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.















8th May 1998
28 years ago
2 hours 2 minutes
Finishes at 3:24pm
$75,000,000 ($151,230,000 today)
Revenue $349,464,664

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