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| Independence Day |
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| Director: Roland Emmerich |
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Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin |
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Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin, Peter Winther, Ute Emmerich, William Fay |
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Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch |
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Action & Adventure |
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| Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 |
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(NTSC Widescreen) |
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Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround |
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English, Spanish |
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| Studio: 20th Century Fox |
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DVD Region: 1 |
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PG-13 |
| DVD Release: Feb 2003 |
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Discs: 1 (Cloud) [$14.98] |
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| Reviews: 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" |
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