Armageddon

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The Resource Armageddon

Statement of responsibility: Touchstone Pictures presents a Jerry Bruckheimer production in association with Valhalla Motion Pictures ; screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh and J.J. Abrams ; produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Gale Anne Hurd, Michael Bay ; directed by Michael Bay

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When NASA discovers a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth, a crew of roughneck oil drillers is sent in to plant a nuclear warhead that should destroy it
The U.S. government calls upon an oil-well driller and his colorful crew to save the world by flying to an asteroid that's on a collision course for earth and setting off a nuclear bomb to divert it

Credits note: Story, Robert Roy Pool and Jonathan Hensleigh ; music, Trevor Rabin ; director of photography, John Schwartzman ; edited by Mark Goldblatt, Chris Lebenzon, Glen Scantlebury

Intended audience: MPAA rating: PG 13; for sci-fi disaster action, sensuality, and brief language

PerformerNote: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, Keith David, Owen Wilson, William Fichtner, Eddie Griffin, Steve Buscemi, Charlton Heston (narrator)

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