Never viewed. 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, Harry Connick Jr., Harvey Fierstein, James Duval, James Rebhorn, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Mary McDonnell, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, Vivica A. Fox, Will Smith Details Edition: Five Star Collection Sound: HiFi Sound, Stereo Sound, Surround Sound 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). [VHS > Movies]