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Independence Day

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Also known as ID4, 1996 Independence Day

1996 film directed by Roland Emmerich

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Independence Day is a 1996 American science fiction film directed by Roland Emmerich, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Dean Devlin. The cast includes Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, and Vivica A. Fox. Produced by Centropolis Entertainment and 20th Century Studios, the film was distributed by 20th Century Studios, Netflix, and Disney+. It was filmed in Iceland, New York City, New Jersey, and Los Angeles, with narrative locations set in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, California.

The film has a runtime of 145 minutes and was released on June 25, 1996. It received an IMDb rating of 7.0 based on 647,996 votes and a TMDb average of 6.909 from 10,407 votes. The production had a budget of 75,000,000 and generated revenue of 817,400,891. Independence Day was followed by Independence Day: Resurgence.

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Film · TMDB

6.9

Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.

Released: 1996-06-25145 minDir: Roland EmmerichAction, Adventure, Science FictionBudget: $75.0MBox office: $817MPart of: Independence Day Collection
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Cast

  • Will Smith as Capt. Steven Hiller
  • Bill Pullman as President Thomas J. Whitmore
  • Jeff Goldblum as David Levinson
  • Mary McDonnell as Marilyn Whitmore
  • Judd Hirsch as Julius Levinson
  • Robert Loggia as General William Grey

Themes

  • spacecraft
  • showdown
  • independence
  • patriotism
  • countdown
  • invasion
  • alien
  • ufo
  • extraterrestrial
  • disaster

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Ratings

IMDb

7/10

647,996 votes

Year
1996
Runtime
145 min
Genres
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

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Encyclopedic overview

Independence Day is a 1996 American science fiction action film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Emmerich and the film's producer Dean Devlin, and starring an ensemble cast that consists of Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, Vivica A. Fox, James Rebhorn, and Harvey Fierstein. The film focuses on disparate groups of people who converge in the Nevada desert in the aftermath of a worldwide attack by a powerful extraterrestrial race. With the other people of the world, they launch a counterattack on July 4—Independence Day in the United States.

While promoting Stargate in Europe, Emmerich conceived the film while answering a question about his belief in the existence of alien life. Devlin and Emmerich decided to incorporate a large-scale attack having noticed that aliens in most invasion films travel long distances in outer space only to remain hidden when reaching Earth. Shooting began on July 28, 1995, in New York City, and the film was completed on October 8, 1995.

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