Movie Description
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 (Bill Pullman), a gung-ho fighter pilot (Will Smith) and a computer geek named David (Jeff Goldblum), 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.
| Credits | | Producer: | Dean Devlin, Lincoln D. Hiatt, Peter Winther, Roland Emmerich, Ute Emmerich, William Fay | | Cast: | Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia, Vivica Fox |
| Details | | Edition: | P&S, Sensormatic | | Sound: | THX Sound |
Notes
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case - Sensormatic
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
THX Mastered Audio - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - 1. Roland Emmerich - Director, Dean Devlin - Producer
2. Volker Engel, Douglas Smith - Special Effects Supervisors, Released theatrically in the USA Tuesday July 2, 1996.
Color by DeLuxe; in Super 35 Panavision widescreen; digitally mastered in THX.
"Independence Day" earned $100 million at the box office in just seven days -- which is faster than any other film ever made.
Additional cast: Ross Bagley (Dylan).
Additional credits: Pamela Klamer and Julia Levine (set design); Terry Clotiaux (visual effects producer); Joseph Viskocil (miniature pyrotechnics/mechanical effects supervisor); Michael Joyce (model shop supervisor); Peter Winther (associate producer) and Jonathan Taylor (second unit camera).
Editorial Reviews
"...For fun, fright and thrills, there's not a wilder joy ride around..."
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers
"...INDEPENDENCE DAY fulfills the promise of the movies: to deliver the audience out of the everyday and into the sensational..."
Sight and Sound - Liese Spencer
"...A rousing state-of-the-art cartoon capped by an aerial-combat climax..."
USA Today - Mike Clark
"...Witty, of-the-moment fun." -- Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum
"...A spectacularly scaled mix of '50s-style alien invader science fiction, '70s disaster epics and all-season gung-ho military actioners..."
Variety - Todd McCarthy
Awards
1996Academy AwardsBest Visual Effects
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