Deep Impact (1998) airs on EBS1 Sunday Cinema on the 31st at 13:30

Deep Impact airs on EBS1's Sunday Cinema slot on the 31st at 13:30.

The 125-minute science fiction film, released May 16, 1998, stars Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, James Cromwell, and Morgan Freeman. Doug Gray Scott, Gary Wents, Bruce Weitz, Betsy Brantley, O'Neill Compton, Leah Kilstett, and Dennis Crosby round out the supporting cast. On Naver, it holds an 8.80 user rating.

Freeman was born June 1, 1937 in the United States and is now 88. He started acting around age 10 and won a state-sponsored drama competition as a teenager. Rather than attend college, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1955 and served until 1959. His film debut came with Pawnshop in 1964. He won Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy at the 47th Golden Globe Awards for Driving Miss Daisy and Best Supporting Actor at the 77th Academy Awards for Million Dollar Baby.

One Naver reviewer sees the film as psychology-driven throughout: "Unlike other disaster films that focus on scale and the impact of the disaster, this film establishes itself as a new work with human stories and drama within a disaster film." The reviewer singles out the female anchor's self-sacrifice, Biderman finding a bride, the beach scene between the anchor and her father, and the final pilots' farewell to their families on Earth as the most affecting moments.