1.5M
ratings
7/10
|
| SUPER SAVINGS: | $6 Limited Time Only |
| List Price: |
|
| You Save: | $0.60 (4% Off) |
Available:
Usually ships in 2-5 business days
|
on most orders of $75+
|
Brand New
|
Also released as:
Independence Day (20th Anniversary Edition)
for $12.20
Independence Day (Blu-ray)
for $8.70
DVD Features:
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: June 12, 2007
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: 20Th Century Fox
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case - Sensormatic
- Single Side - Dual Layer
- Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox - 2.35
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dolby Digital Surround - English, French
- Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary:
- Roland Emmerich - Director, Dean Devlin - Producer
- Volker Engel, Douglas Smith - Special Effects Supervisors
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum & Bill Pullman | |
| Performer: | Margaret Colin, Judd Hirsch, Randy Quaid, Vivica A. Fox, Mary McDonnell, James Rebhorn, Harvey Fierstein, Robert Loggia, Harry Connick, Jr. & James Duval | |
| Directed by | Roland Emmerich | |
| Edited by | David Brenner | |
| Screenwriting by | Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerich | |
| Composition by | David Arnold | |
| Produced by | Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, Ute Emmerich, William Fay, Lincoln D. Hiatt & Peter Winther | |
| Director of Photography: | Karl Walter Lindenlaub |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"You know how I'm always trying to save the planet' Well, here's my chance."
- David Levinson (JEFF GOLDBLUM)
"What's the rush' You think we'll get to Washington, it won't be there'"
- Julius Levinson (JUDD HIRSCH), to his son, David Levinson (JEFF GOLDBLUM), while the two frantically drive to the capital city.
"Welcome to Earth."
- Capt. Steven Hiller (Will Smith), after punching the daylights out of an alien who has crash-landed in Arizona.
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1996 -
Best Visual Effects
Entertainment Reviews:
65%
75%
Sonnenfeld has directed with gusto and precision from a vaguely plotted but often hilarious screenplay, and his view of Manhattan as a holding pen for intergalactic refugees has the touch of authentic experience fundamental to all great comedy.
Full Review
New York Daily News
It may be film-making by numbers, but the numbers are the right ones, and they fall into place with a satisfying clunk. This is everything a blockbuster should be.
Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
A sci-fi story constellation of the brightest star elements. With German director Emmerich at the helm, Independence Day soars as filmic uber-craft.
Full Review
Hollywood Reporter
...A spectacularly scaled mix of '50s-style alien invader science fiction, '70s disaster epics and all-season gung-ho military actioners...
Variety
...INDEPENDENCE DAY fulfills the promise of the movies: to deliver the audience out of the everyday and into the sensational...
Sight and Sound
...A rousing state-of-the-art cartoon capped by an aerial-combat climax...
USA Today
...For fun, fright and thrills, there's not a wilder joy ride around...
Rolling Stone
Product 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.
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.
Plot Synopsis:
INDEPENDENCE DAY is a pyrotechnic, futuristic, disaster, action mondo-adventure about aliens attacking Earth and humans giving them the big boot. When mountain-sized flying saucers open fire on the world's cities, a ragtag band of colorful characters sets out to bring the alien critters to their pseudopodic knees. Borrowing liberally from science fiction classics like WAR OF THE WORLDS and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and a host of disaster movies from TOWERING INFERNO to METEOR, ID4 maintains a mindless mission to entertain with dazzling special effects and unabashed feel-good charm. Academy Award Nominations: Best Sound, Best Visual Effects. Academy Awards: Best Visual Effects.
Keywords:
Action
|
Adventure
|
Aliens
|
Big Battles
|
Disaster
|
Futuristic
|
High Flying
|
Science-Fiction
|
Blockbuster
|
Theatrical Release
Production Notes:
- 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).
19%off
16%off
16%off
Similar Products
Award Winners:
Formats:
Genres:
Movie Categories:
Product Groupings:
Theme:
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 12,523
- UPC: 024543036708
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item
40%off
16%off
92%off
73%off
70%off
25%off
25%off
60%off
23%off