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About
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.
Theatrical
Jul 2, 1996
Box Office
$817.4M
Budget
$75.0M
Return
10.9x
DVD / Blu-ray
Mar 11, 2008
Theaters
10
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20th Century Fox, Centropolis Entertainment
Quotes
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Quotes about Independence Day
* Joe Viskocil, film's pyrotechnics expert as quoted in by Nicholas Barber, The Guardian, June 18, 2016.
[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/18/why-are-we-hooked-on-films-about-mass-destruction-independence-day-resurgence "Why are we hooked on films about mass destruction?"]
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Guilt Over Success and Its Consequences
Quotes about Independence Day
I felt guilty about making my work look so good. I started thinking maybe I did my job too well, and it might have been the nucleus of an idea for someone to say: ‘Hey, let’s crash a plane into the White House.’
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Independence Day Collection
A series of science fiction action films that revolves around extraterrestrials invading Earth and seeking to eradicate mankind while the remaining human resistance uses everything at their disposal t...
Cast
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Will Smith
Capt. Steven Hiller
B
Bill Pullman
President Thomas J. Whitmore
Jeff Goldblum
David Levinson
M
Mary McDonnell
Marilyn Whitmore
J
Judd Hirsch
Julius Levinson
R
Robert Loggia
General William Grey
R
Randy Quaid
Russell Casse
M
Margaret Colin
Constance Spano
J
James Rebhorn
Albert Nimzicki
H
Harvey Fierstein
Marty Gilbert
A
Adam Baldwin
Major Mitchell
B
Brent Spiner
Dr. Brackish Okun
J
James Duval
Miguel
V
Vivica A. Fox
Jasmine Dubrow
L
Lisa Jakub
Alicia
R
Ross Bagley
Dylan
M
Mae Whitman
Patricia Whitmore
B
Bill Smitrovich
Captain Watson
K
Kiersten Warren
Tiffany
H
Harry Connick Jr.
Capt. Jimmy Wilder
