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Independence Day Details

1996

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Starring	Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch
Director	Roland Emmerich
Genres	Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller

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With a $71 million budget and mind-blowing special effects, INDEPENDENCE DAY is a grand, high-tech throwback to such films of the 1950s as THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and WAR OF THE WORLDS. Here, aliens, in numerous gargantuan spaceships, arrive without warning and hover over the world's most important cities, creating global panic. The nasty visitors use death rays to blow New York, Washington D.C, and Los Angeles to smithereens. A handful of plucky Americans, including the Clinton-esque President, a gung-ho fighter pilot and a computer geek named David, attempt to devise a strategy against the invaders.
On July 4th, their risky plan is put into effect, as dozens of fighter pilots (including the President) wage an assault on the spaceships. However, their success (and the fate of the world) depends on David, who is attempting to disarm the aliens's mothership.

Starring	Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, Jeff Goldblum
Director	Roland Emmerich
Studio	20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 19 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 19 mins
Certificate
Collections	Release The Tension
Genres	Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller
Language	DVD: English Blu-ray: English
Released	Production year: 1996 To Rent: DVD: 26 Feb 2001 Blu-ray: 24 Dec 2007

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- Enjoyably silly, jingoistic nonsense that found an appreciative audience for its sensational effects of blowing up the White House and most of the world; it sticks closely to the plot of The War of the Worlds, offering a technological version of a
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:41
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  What was I thinking.
  
  It has Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum in it. Enough said.
  
  At least Tom Hanks wasn't in it.
  
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  - 10 May 2004 at 14:29
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  Absolutely Superb
  
  Good story line, great special effects and Will Smith! What more can a film want? Must be in top ten films of all time. I've only seen it 7 times - looking ... read more »
  
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  not normally my type of film
  
  i quite enjoyed watching independence day even though im not really into sci fi films. was kind of predictable though since there is a few films that are ... read more »
  
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  - Chester le Street
  - 26 Oct 2011 at 16:50
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  Great film
  
  One of my favourite film , easy watch and the action and special effects are amazing , well worth a watch!
  
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Movie wine buff Pullman has no sense of smell
- 16 Nov 2009
Actor Bill Pullman was an odd choice to play a wine expert in 2008 sleeper hit Bottle Shock - because a theatre accident cost him his sense of smell. The Independence Day star admits he doesn't have a nose for good wine - because he can't tell whether a vintage is good or not by sniff alone. He tells BlogTalkRadio.com's Let's Do Lunch!, "When Bottle Shock came along I thought I was terrible for the movie but I really like the agriculture, how you grow grapes, and the soils and the rain and... Read more
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