Independence Day (1996)

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Studio: 20th Century Fox
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Jul 2, 1996
Running Time: 145 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
It is an ordinary summer day. But then, without warning, something very extraordinary happens. Enormous shadows fall across the land. Strange atmospheric phenomena, ominous and mesmerizing, surface around the globe. All eyes turn upward. The question of whether we're alone in the universe has finally been answered. And, in a matter of minutes, the lives of every person across the globe are forever changed. With the fate of our planet at stake, the Fourth of July is about to take on an entirely new meaning. No longer will it be an American holiday. It will be known as the day the entire world fought back. The day we did not go gentle into the good night... The day all of us on planet Earth celebrated our independence day.
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Captain Steve Hiller
President Thomas J Whitmore
David Levinson
Marilyn Whitmore
Julius Levinson
Jasmine Dubrow
General William Grey
Russell Casse
Constance Spano
Albert Nimzikj
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''Independence Day'' is the Hollywood version of raising the dead. Its frankly spectacular special effects revive a genre that has slept with the fishes since the 1950s, the ''Keep watching the skies'' epics of destructive alien invasion.

Based in spirit on ''The War of the Worlds,'' H.G. Wells' tale of marauding Martians (which also inspired Orson Welles' famous radio broadcast and a 1953 George Pal production), ''Independence Day'' does more than just lift situations and character types from… Continued