They recruit a team of roughnecks to fly to the comet, drill to the core where they can place a nuclear bomb to blow the comet around earth which each half clearing on either side of the earth's atmosphere. We are dealing with a man with lots of experience in drilling (Bruce Willis) and his daughter's (Liv Tyler) lover/fiance (Ben Affleck) who he doesn't like, because he does things brashly at times, and his daughter is too good for a "roughneck." Billy Bob Thornton plays the NASA mission director. An interesting side light is Steven Tyler singing "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" while his daughter (in real life) is becoming engaged. Of course everything that can go wrong does go wrong: their weigh station, refueling stations burns up, and they take aboard a cosmonaut, they miss their landing site, and one spacecraft is hit with debris and crashes, on of the riggers contracts space dementia and goes crazy, etc. etc. This movie has a twist in the end, but it is a very rough ride for our drilling rig workers turned astronauts. A bit of strong language is not needed.
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