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Meteor (1979)

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02:35-04:20 Thu 14th Jul 2011 105m
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Synopsis

Director Ronald Neame here places the planet on a hopeless, star-studded collision course with a gigantic asteroid. Spectacle has never looked cheaper or more pathetic than the tidal waves, avalanches and mud slides on view in this celluloid catastrophe that reaches an apex of absurdity when America (in the person of Sean Connery) and Russia (Natalie Wood) bury the hatchet to nuke the big rock. The film effectively wrapped up the spate of 1970s blockbuster disaster movies, which began well with The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno before running out of steam with the likes of The Swarm. Airplane! was just around the corner ...