Independence Day [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray] [20th Anniversary Edition]

Overview

In this sci-fi action movie, huge alien spaceships appear over the world's major cities. While the President stages an elaborate greeting ceremony, computer-whiz David struggles to decode their signals. Discovering that the aliens have hostile intentions, a disparate group of people join forces to try to save the planet.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/03/2016
UPC:	0024543173670
Original Release:	1996
Source:	20Th Century Fox
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:25:00
Sales rank:	15,895

Special Features

Disc 1: ; Combat review; ID4 datastream trivia track (theatrical version); Commentary by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin (theatrial and extended cuts); Commentary by Oscar-winning special effects supervisors Volker Engel and Doug Smith; ; Disc 2: ; All-new 30-minute documentary - Independence Day: a legacy surging forward; Gag reel; Creating reality; ID4 invasion mock-umentary; The making of ID4; Monitor earth broadcasts; Gallery

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Will Smith	Capt. Steven Hiller
Bill Pullman	President Thomas J. Whitmore
Jeff Goldblum	David Levinson
Mary McDonnell	Marilyn Whitmore
Judd Hirsch	Julius Levinson
Margaret Colin	Constance Spano
Randy Quaid	Russell Casse
Robert Loggia	Gen. William Grey
James Rebhorn	Albert Nimziki
Harvey Fierstein	Marty Gilbert
Adam Baldwin	Major Mitchell
Brent Spiner	Dr. Brakish Okun
James Duval	Miguel
Vivica A. Fox	Jasmine Dubrow
Lisa Jakub	Alicia
Ross Bagley	Dylan
Mae Whitman	Patricia Whitmore
Bill Smitrovich	Captain Watson
Kiersten Warren	Tiffany,Co-Worker No. 4
Harry Connick Jr.	Jimmy
Giuseppe Andrews	Troy
John Storey	Dr. Isaacs
Frank Novak	Teddy
Devon Gummersall	Philip
Leland Orser	Tech/Med. Asst. No. 1
Mirron E. Willis	Aide,Secret Serviceman
Ross Lacy	Aide
David Pressman	Whitmore's Aide
Vivian Palermo	Tech/Med. Asst. No. 2
Raphael Sbarge	Commander/Tech
Bobby Hosea	Commanding Officer
Dan Lauria	Commanding Officer
Steve Giannell	Radar Tech
Eric Paskel	Radar Tech
Carlos LaCamara	Radar Operator
John Bennett Perry	Secret Serviceman
Tim Kelleher	Technician
Wayne Wilderson	Area 51 Technician
Jay Acovone	Area 51 Guard
Thom Barry	SETI Tech Two
Jana Marie Hupp	SETI Tech Three
Matt Pashkow	Second Officer
Robert Pine	Chief of Staff
Marisa Morell	Co-Worker No. 2
Michael Winther	Co-Worker No. 3
Paul LeClair	Co-Worker No. 5
Capt. Michael 'Chewy' Vacca	Lt. Peterson
David Chanel	Secret Service Agent
John Capodice	Mario
Greg Collins	Military Aide
Derek Webster	Sky Crane Pilot
Mark Fite	Pilot
Eric Neal Newman	Pilot
Levani	Russian Pilot
Kristof Konrad	Russian Pilot
Kevin Sifuentes	Tank Commander
Elston Ridgle	Soldier
Randy Oglesby	Mechanic
Jack Moore	Mechanic
Barry Del Sherman	Street Preacher
Lyman Ward	Secret Service Guy
Anthony Crivello	Lincoln
Richard Speight Jr.	Ed
Barbara Beck	Monica Soloway,Housewife
Joe Fowler	Reporter
Andrew Warne	Reporter
Sharon Tay	Reporter
Peter Jozef Lucas	Russian Reporter
Yelena Danova	Russian Newscaster
Derek Kim	Korean Newscaster
Vanessa J. Wells	Newscaster
Jessika Cardinahl	German Video Newscaster
Gary W. Cruz	Video Newscaster
Ron Pitts	Video Newscaster
Wendy Walsh	Video Newscaster
Christine Devine	Video Newscaster
Mark Thompson	Video Newscaster
Jack Germond	Video Newscaster
Morton Kondracke	Video Newscaster
Ernie Anastos	Rex Black/NY Newscaster
Cinckevin Cooney	Atlantic Air
Rance Howard	Chaplain
Nelson Mashita	Japanese Tech
Jeff Phillips	B-2 Pilot
Steve Giannelli	Radar Tech
James Wong	SETI Tech One
Jeffrey Daniel Phillips	B-2 Pilot
Andrew Keegan	Older Boy
Jim Piddock	Reginald
Jerry Dunphy	Himself
Barry Nolan	Himself
George Putnam	Himself
Pat Skipper	Redneck
Lisa Star	Woman on Roof
Malcolm Danare	Intellectual on Roof
Robin Groth	Flagstaff News Anchor
Richard Pachorek	LAPD Helicopter Pilot
Jim Cummings	Special Vocal Effects
John McLaughlin	Himself
Sayed Badreya	Arab Pilot
Fred Barnes	Himself
John Bradley	Lucas
Arthur Brooks	Trucker on Roof
Eleanor Clift	Herself
Joyce Cohen	Kim Peters
Deeny Dakota	Boomer
James Joyce	Master C.P.O.
Carlos Lara	Farmer Kid
Jon Mathews	Thomson
Michael Moertl	Thief
Mike Monteleone	Butler
Julie Moran	Entertainment Tonight Reporter
Lee Strauss	Elvis Fanatic
Adam Tomei	Sailor
Eric Zee	Northridge Field Reporter
Harry Connick	Actor
David Arnold	Composer

Technical Credits

Roland Emmerich

Dean Devlin

Roland Emmerich	Director,Screenwriter,Executive Producer,Producer,Producer,Executive Producer
Dean Devlin	Screenwriter,Producer,Director
Clay Pinney	Special Effects
Volker Engel	Special Effects
Tricia Ashford	Special Effects
Douglas Hans Smith	Special Effects
Joseph Viskocil	Special Effects
Jeff Wexler	Sound Mixer,Sound/Sound Designer
Sandy Gendler	Sound Mixer
Val Kuklowsky	Sound Mixer
William Fay	Executive Producer,Producer
Bob Beemer	Sound Effects
Bill W. Benton	Sound Effects
Bruce Bisenz	Sound Effects
Noah Blough	Sound Effects
James Bolt	Sound Effects
Gino Acevedo	Special Effects
Rick Barker	Stunts
Victor Abbene	Special Effects
Stacey Weigert	Special Effects
Brian J. Williams	Stunts
Tom Morga	Stunts
Ray Lykins	Stunts
Gary Charles Davis	Stunts
Peter Bucossi	Stunts
Chris Howell	Stunts
Frank Ferrara Sr.	Stunts
Norman Douglass	Stunts
Doug Coleman	Stunts
Dana Hee	Stunts
Wendy Kurtzman	Casting
Gilbert Combs	Stunts
Eddie Matthews	Stunts
Chris Carpenter	Sound/Sound Designer
Lincoln D. Hiatt	Producer
Peter Winther	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Independence Day's grand-scale invasion of theaters marked it one of the biggest summer blockbusters of the 1990s. The story is simple enough: Aliens show up over the Fourth of July weekend and without reason blow up most of the world. It's up to the heroic survivors -- stern-faced president Bill Pullman, amiable Army pilot Will Smith, and plucky software programmer Jeff Goldblum among them -- to save the planet. Independence Day is a lot of things: patriotic battle cry; special effects extravaganza; really, really scary and loud. Though the film is not particularly dramatic or thought provoking, director Roland Emmerich (The Patriot) makes an entertaining ride out of fabulous effects, particularly the horrifyingly fiery obliteration of cities worldwide. Smith is fresh once again with a terrific alien-whuppin' swagger, and though Pullman's rousing Fourth of July speech before the climactic battle is not on the literary level of Henry V's St. Crispin's Day speech, it is equally motivational. A loud throwback to alien paranoia of the H. G. Wells classic War of the Worlds, ID4 more than found itself a place in sci-fi/action history, it attacked and took over.