 | Independence Day (1996) Run time: 145 min Rating: 6.8 Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi Director: Roland Emmerich Writers: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich Stars: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum Trivia: The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy. Fighting superior technology, Man's best weapon is the will to survive. |
| Storyline On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day... Written by Gustaf Molin <gumo@hem2.passagen.se> | |
| Plot Keywords: alien, spaceship, spacecraft, weapon, area 51 | |
| Details: Country: USA Release Date: 3 July 1996 (USA) | |
| Box Office Budget: $75,000,000 (estimated) Opening Weekend: JPY 850,881,900 (Japan) (6 December 1996) Gross: JPY 3,766,488,300 (Japan) (24 January 1997) | |
