Independence Day (Single Disc Widescreen Edition)

Sales Rank: 2764 (DVD)
Actor: Will Smith
Actor: Bill Pullman
Actor: Jeff Goldblum
Actor: Mary McDonnell
Actor: Judd Hirsch
AspectRatio: 2.35:1
AudienceRating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SMITH,WILL
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Director: Roland Emmerich
EAN: 0024543036685
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Format: Anamorphic
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: DVD
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
IsAdultProduct: 0
IsEligibleForTradeIn: 1
Label: 20th Century Fox
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Model: FOX D2003668D
MPN: FOXD2003668D
Number of Disks: 1
Number of Items: 2
PackageQuantity: 1
PartNumber: FOXD2003668D
ProductTypeName: ABIS_DVD
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
RegionCode: 1
Release Date: 11. February 2003
Running Time: 145
SKU: I0024543036685
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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UPC: 024543036685
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by: Roland Emmerich (Producer), Roland Emmerich (Writer), Dean Devlin (Producer), Dean Devlin (Writer), Peter Winther (Producer), Ute Emmerich (Producer), William Fay (Producer)
Price: $6.15

Product Description

One of the biggest box office hits of all time, Independence Day delivers the ultimate encounter when mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies. But wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with a determined band of survivors, uniting for one last strike against the invaders -- before it's the end of mankind.

Amazon.com

In Independence Day, a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. Independence Day is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn't even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Independence Day is a pastiche of conventions from flying-saucer movies from the 1940s and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and bizarre coincidences that create convenient shortcuts in the story. (Such as the way the girlfriend of one of the film's heroes--played by Will Smith--just happens to run across the president's injured wife, who are then both rescued by Smith's character who somehow runs across them in alien-ravaged Los Angeles County.) The movie is just sheer fun, aided by a cast that knows how to balance the retro requirements of the genre with a more contemporary feel. --Tom Keogh