This first of two summer blockbusters pitting Earth against a celestial wrecking ball is a three-hankie weeper in disaster-movie drag, and its tear-jerking bull's-eyes are separated by long stretches of tedium. Rising young reporter Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni) goes looking for a White House sex scandal and finds instead that the government has been sitting on the information that there's a massive comet on a collision course with Earth. Jenny's career skyrockets as her relationship with her parents crumbles: Her father (Maximilian Schell) has just married a woman half his age, while her mother (Vanessa Redgrave) hides despair beneath a brittle facade of gaiety. A team h...
Released:
1998
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
105 mins