 Deep Impact 1998  PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller
Director: Mimi Leder
Cast: Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, Morgan Freeman, Leelee Sobieski, James Cromwell, Mary McCormack, Blair Underwood, Dougray Scott, Laura Innes, Richard Schiff, Jon Favreau, Ron Eldard
A giant comet is heading on a collision course with Earth, and the U.S. President Tom Beck (Morgan Freeman) orders astronaut Spurgeon Tanner (Robert Duvall) and his team aboard a spaceship to destroy the comet. The mission fails, and the President devises Plan B to hold a lottery in which the winners will be sent to giant caves in the hope that IF they can survive the comet's impact, they will continue to propagate the human race. Fourteen-year-old Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood) discovered the comet, and he and his family are given a pass to enter the cave, but his girlfriend Sarah (Leelee Sobieski) and her family must be left behind. Meanwhile, Tanner has not given up and is devising another plan to prevent the catastrophe and save Earth.
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Pay It Forward 2000 PG-13, 122 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mimi Leder
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment, Angie Dickinson, James Caviezel, Jay Mohr, Jon Bon Jovi, David Ramsey, Gary Werntz, Rusty Meyers, Colleen Flynn, Marc Donato, Kathleen Wilhoite, Alexandra Kotcheff, Hannah Werntz
When Social Studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) assigns an extra-credit project, 11-year-old Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) takes it to heart. The assignment: find a way to make the world a better place. Trevor's solution: a chain letter involving good deeds and asking those on the receiving end to "pay it forward." The acting is very good in this upbeat story.
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Peacemaker 1997  R, 122 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Mimi Leder
Cast: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Marcel Iures, Michael Boatman, Aleksandr Baluyev, Rene Medvesek, Gary Werntz, Randall Batinkoff, Jim Haynie, Alexander Strobele, Holt McCallany, Joan Copeland, Carlos Gomez, Slavko Juraga
A train crash in Russia sets off a nuclear explosion. Was it an accident or not? White House anti-smuggling official Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman) thinks not, and U.S. intelligence officer Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe (George Clooney) agrees. Together, they set out to get answers that lead to a terrorist Dusan Gavrich (Marcel Iures) who has plans to set off a nuclear explosion in Manhattan.
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| 1. Deep Impact (1998)
2. Pay It Forward (2000)
3. Peacemaker (1997)
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