Meteor Movie Information

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Overall Rank: 21157

Average Rating: 2.1/4

# of Ratings: 23

Theatrical Release Date: 10/19/1979

Language: English

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi

MPAA Rating: PG

Director: Ronald Neame

Actors: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Martin Landau, Henry Fonda, Richard Dysart

Plot: The US and the Soviets must put aside their differences to join forces and find a way to destroy an enormous asteroid heading toward Earth.

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Despite dated FX, it's still a pretty good movie

The M.O.W. - wrote on 08/19/2008

On a Monday, ex-NASA scientist "Dr. Paul Bradley" is in the middle of captaining a boat in a race when a US Coast Guard cutter comes up along side. Somebody on the Coast Guard boat informs him that they have orders to find him, and they will block their path if he does not comply. He is then whisked away to Washington, DC.

When he arrives to where he is wanted, he is not happy. However, he quickly learns that a manned space probe was destroyed by a large asteroid fragment after the larger one from which it came was struck by a recently discovered comet. Those he meet with inform him that they need him to come up with a way in using "Goliath," a Top Secret nuclear missile platform "Dr. Bradley" created for just such an emergency, but was turned into a defensive weapon now in orbit …

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