Meteor

Name: Meteor
Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Released: 1979-10-19T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 5.158

About Meteor

After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits, it will cause an incredible catastrophe that will probably extinguish mankind.

Meteor is a 1979 science fiction thriller film directed by Ronald Neame. Its themes are disaster, NASA, disaster movie, and flood.

Sean Connery stars as Paul Bradley, Natalie Wood as Tatiana Donskaya, Karl Malden as Harry Sherwood, and Brian Keith as Dr. Dubov. It runs 107 minutes and was released in October 1979.

The screenplay is by Edmund H. North and Stanley Mann.

The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, and Armageddon make useful companions to Meteor, all filed under global catastrophe. TMDB voters put it at 5.2 out of 10 across 183 votes and it carries a PG rating.