Meteor (1979)

Directed by

Ronald Neame

Genre

drama film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, disaster film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 173 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Scientists discover a large asteroid is going to hit Earth. They struggle to get Cold War rivals to work together to stop it.

tensedateddramaticlogistics-heavyseriousdireunderstatedcold-war era

What happens

Meteor is a 1979 American science fiction disaster film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood. The film's premise, which follows a group of scientists struggling with Cold War politics after an asteroid is detected to be on a collision course with Earth, was inspired by a 1967 MIT report, Project Icarus. The screenplay was written by Oscar winner Edmund H. North and Stanley Mann. The international cast also includes Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Joseph Campanella, Richard Dysart and Henry Fonda. The film was a box-office bomb and was panned by critics, but was nonetheless nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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