Independence Day (movie)

Independence Day is a 1996 American science fiction movie about an attempted alien takeover of the earth. The movie features several scenes of major American landmarks being destroyed by the aliens.

Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Criticism 2 Facts and Figures 3 Cast 4 Depicted Locations 5 External Links

Criticism

Whilst a commercial success, it was widely ridiculed by critics for the plot (which involved causing the aliens' high-tech computers to malfunction by infecting them with a simple virus written on an Apple Macintosh), and poor acting. Many people outside the United States (and some within) also widely derided the film for what critics viewed as calculated pandering to excessive American nationalistic sentiment.

Facts and Figures

Released in 1996.

145 minutes long

Directed by: Roland Emmerich[?]

Written by: Dean Devlin Roland Emmerich

Original music by: David Arnold

Produced by: 20th Century Fox Centropolis Film Productions

Distributed by: 20th Century Fox.

Cast

Jeff Goldblum[?] - David Levinson

Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore

Will Smith - Captain Steven 'Eagle' Hiller

James Duval[?] - Miguel Casse

Vivica A. Fox[?] - Jasmine Dubrow

Judd Hirsch[?] - Julius Levinson

Mary McDonnell[?] - First Lady Marilyn Whitmore

Randy Quaid[?] - Russell Casse

Brent Spiner - Dr. Brakish Okun

Depicted Locations

• Area 51
• El Toro Marine Corps Air Station
• Los Angeles
• New York City

External Links

• Independence Day on sciflicks.com (http://www.sciflicks.com/independence_day/)