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An American science fiction action film named after the American holiday, which factors into the film's story thematically. It was created by the same team behind 1994's Stargate, Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin with the former writing and directing, and the latter focusing on writing. For Emmerich and Devlin, this film was their first disaster movie they made together, a genre they would become most known for, and established their signature style. This film, and the disaster films they would go on to make, featured an ensemble cast of characters who will have to set aside their differences to survive and large scale destruction sequences featuring many iconic landmarks around the world being demolished. It was also scored by the same composer as Stargate, David Arnold. The film's ensemble cast was led by Bill Pullman, Will_Smith, and Jeff Goldblum. It premiered on June 25, 1996 at the Mann Plaza Theater, and premiered to the general public on July 3, 1996, close to American's actual Independence Day.

It is July 2, and the United States is getting ready to celebrate Independence Day. However, the entire world is faced with a crisis when a mysterious fleet of city-size alien spaceships enter Earth with the ships ominously hovering over various cities around the world. US President Thomas J. Whitmore, a president who's consistently doubted by the mass media, is faced with the biggest crisis of his career as he has to figure out how to keep the public calm and deal with the mysterious extraterrestials. In response to the crisis, hotshot pilot Captain Steven Hiller is forced to cut his holiday short and leave his family to be on standby with his fellow Black Knight pilots. While the US government is deliberating what to do with the aliens, genius technician David Levinson, a man stuck in a job far below his actual capabilities, cracks a signal that the aliens embedded in satellite transmissions and realizes that the alien plan to launch a full scale attack on humanity. These three men soon find themselves at the center of an interstellar war where they must race against time to prevent the aliens from wiping out all of humanity.

The film received mixed reviews from professional critics, but notably became one of the biggest box office smashes of the 1990s and the most well known alien invasion work in that decade, grossing 817.4 million dollars. The film's success catapulted Will Smith to Hollywood A list status and became part of Smith's gold streak of box office hits that he would maintain for the next two decades. The film became famous for its ambitious special effects work, supervised by Volker Engel, Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney and Joe Viskocil, with the film featuring 3000 effects shots. The film holds the Guiness Book record for the most miniature models to appear in any film, much of which were used for the film's massive destruction scenes which were then enhanced with CGI. The movie won its sole Oscar for its effects work. The film was one of the many science fiction works to be homaged by the 1997 video game Star Fox 64, with the level Katina being heavily inspired by the film.

The film spawned a sequel that premiered twenty years later with Pullman and Goldblum returning, but not Smith, called Independence Day: Resurgence. Emmerich and Devlin returned to direct and write.

Sequel:
Independence_Day:_Resurgence






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