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Meteor
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780792843603
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792843606
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 MonoSpanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: 027616837424
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 29, 2000
Running Time: 107 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: October 19, 1979
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Editorial Review:
Sean Connery leads a team of asteroid-battling astronomers in Meteor, one of the last and most unusual examples of the disaster movie craze of the 1970s. In this one, a killer asteroid named Orpheus threatens to collide with the Earth, and Connery must come up with a plan to stop it. Cold war politics date the picture a bit, but they also add some weight to the impending doom facing humanity. Like any good disaster flick, it's populated by an all-star cast, including Karl Malden, Martin Landau, Natalie Wood, Richard Dysart, Henry Fonda, and Trevor Howard. Brian Keith plays Connery's opposite number in the U.S.S.R. While the pacing and special effects are weak compared to similar celestial menaces depicted in Armageddon and Deep Impact, Meteor displays all the benefits of its more powerful cast… not to mention Hank Fonda as President. --Mark Savary
Outer space can hardly contain all the stars who round out the extraordinary cast in this spellbinding thriller about a five-mile-wide meteor on a catastrophic collision course with earth. Natalie Wood and Oscar® winners* Sean Connery Karl Malden Martin Landau and Henry Fonda shine in this thoroughly engrossing (The Hollywood Reporter) sci-fi special effects spectacular that rockets across the screen like a speeding comet. A brilliant scientist Dr. Paul Bradley (Connery) is summoned to Washington by NASA chief Harold Sherwood (Malden) who informs him that a huge meteor will smash into earth in six days. The only chance to destroy the meteor is to work with the Soviets revealing to them top secrets. But as the clock is ticking fragments of the meteor split off and come crashing to earth causing enormous damage. And as avalanches and title waves take a devastating toll Bradley works against all odds to eliminate the greatest threat the world has ever known. *1987: Connery Supporting Actor The Untouchables;1951: Malden Supporting ActorA Streetcar Named Desire;1994: Landau Supporting Actor Ed Wood;1981: Fonda Actor On Golden Pond; 1980: Fonda Honorary AwardSystem Requirements:Running Time: 120 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG UPC: 027616837424
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Boy This Takes Me Back !
Good little film Meteor is, and it's one of the one's I saw with Connery in the lead not too long after giving up on Bond for good.
Meteor may never go down in history as the best movie of it's type, but I think for those that even remember it, it deserves a place as the first film of it's kind. Remember this was long before "Armaggedon" "Deep Impact" and all those knockoffs you see on the Sci Fi Channel such as Asteroid and the like.
Indeed I believe Meteor was the ... Read More
Rating:  - Oh, what possessed you? All of you?
Meteor (Ronald Neame, 1979)
Oh, Ronald Neame. Three of your movies appear on all-time-thousand-best lists in various places (Peter Traver's guide and Yamann's weblog both list The Poseidon Adventure, Travers and the Guardian's weblog both list The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and both the New York Times and Halliwell's guides elect Tunes of Glory); how did you go from such great heights to, well, this? Though I have to say that any movie upon which a pinball game was based is automatically ... Read More
Rating:  - meteor
i enjoy meteor it was very good quality movie & will mostly liked purchased more of this kind of movie in the further. thank you celia
Rating: - Before "Armagedon" and "Deep Impact"...
...was METEOR, if you like this kind of movies, don`t think about it, just purchase it.
Rating: - Why don't you stick a broom up my rear so I can sweep the carpet on my way out!
Ok so the former James Bond doesn't say rear but it's a great one liner by the great Sean Connery. Meteor is lead by an allstar cast including Sean Connery (James Bond movies, Brian Keith (Hooper), and Martin Landau (Field of Dreams).
The movie is about a meteor called Morpheus on a collision course towards earth. In the times of the Soviet Union and the Cold War you can see the icy reception Major General Adlon (played by Martin Landau) gives Dr. Dubov (Keith). Brian Keith plays Connery's (Dr. ... Read More
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