from 20th Century Fox
Directed by
Roland
Emmerich
Starring
Will
Smith ...Captain Steven Hiller
Bill
Pullman ...President Thomas J. Whitmore
Jeff
Goldblum ...David Levinson
Mary
McDonnell ...Marilyn Whitmore
Judd
Hirsch ...Julius Levinson
Robert
Loggia ...General William Grey
Randy
Quaid ...Russell Casse
Margaret Colin ...Constance Spano
James Rebhorn ...Albert Nimzicki
Harvey Fierstein ...Marty Gilbert
Adam Baldwin ...Major Mitchell
Brent Spiner ...Dr. Brakish Okun
James Duval ...Miguel Casse
Vivica A. Fox ...Jasmine Dubrow
Lisa Jakub ...Alicia Casse
Ross Bagley ...Dylan Dubrow
Mae Whitman ...Patricia Whitmore
Bill Smitrovich ...Captain Watson
Kiersten Warren ...Tiffany
Harry Connick Jr. ...Captain Jimmy Wilder
Giuseppe Andrews ...Troy Casse
John Storey ...Dr. Isaacs
Frank Novak ...Teddy
Devon Gummersall ...Philip
Leland Orser ...Techy/Med Asst #1
Mirron E. Willis ...Aide
Ross Lacy ...Aide
David Pressman ...Whitmore's Aide
Vivian Palermo ...Tech/Med Asst
Raphael Sbarge ...Commander/Tech
Bobby Hosea ...Commanding Officer
Dan Lauria ...Commanding Officer
Steve Giannelli ...Radar Tech
Eric Paskel ...Radar Tech
Carlos Lacamara ...Radar Operator
John Bennett Perry ...Secret Serviceman
Troy Willis ...Secret Serviceman
Tim Kelleher ...Technician
Wayne Wilderson ...Area 51 Technician
Jay Acovone ...Area 51 Guard
James Wong ...SETI Tech One
Thom Barry ...SETI Tech Two
Jana Marie Hupp ...SETI Tech Three
Matt Pashkow ...Second Officer
Robert Pine ...Chief of Staff
Marisa Morell ...Co-Worker #2
Michael Winther ...Co-Worker #3
Dexter Warren ...Co-Worker #4
Paul LeClair ...Co-Worker #5
Michael 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 Outchaneichvili ...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
Joe Fowler ...Reporter
Andrew Warne ...Reporter
Sharon Tay ...Reporter
Peter J. 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 L. Walsh ...Video Newscaster
Christine Devine ...Video Newscaster
Mark Thompson ...Video Newscaster
Ernie Anastos ...Rex Black/NY Newscaster
Kevin Cooney ...Atlantic Air
Rance Howard ...Chaplain
Nelson Mashita ...Japanese Tech
Jeff Phillips ...B-2 Pilot
Sayed Badreya ...Arab Pilot
Adam Tomei ...Sailor
John Bradley ...Lucas
Kimberly Beck ...Housewife
Thomas F. Duffy ...Lieutenant
Andrew Keegan ...Older Boy
Jon Matthews ...Thomson
Jim Piddock ...Reginald
Frederic W. Barnes ...Himself
Eleanor Clift ...Herself
Jerry Dunphy ...Himself
Jack Germond ...Himself
Morton Kondracke ...Himself
John McLaughlin ...Himself
Barry Nolan ...Himself
George Putnam ...Himself
Eric Michael Zee ...Northridge Field Reporter
Pat Skipper ...Redneck
Carlos Lara ...Farmer Kid
Mike Monteleone ...Butler
Lee Strauss ...Elvis Fanatic
Lisa Star ...Woman on Roof
Malcolm Danare ...Intellectual on Roof
Arthur Brooks ...Trucker on Roof
Michael Moertl ...Thief
James J. Joyce ...Master C.P.O.
Joyce Cohen ...Kim Peters (Reporter)
Julie Moran ...Herself
Robin Groth ...Flagstaff News Anchor
Richard Pachorek ...LAPD Helicopter Pilot
Gary A. Hecker ...Alien Vocal Effects
Frank Welker ...Special Vocal Effects
Taqi Hasan ...Iraqi Fighter Pilot
Erick Avari ...SETI Chief
Roy Newton ...Pilot
Volker Engel ...Man in Office
Bob Friend ...Sky TV Newsreader
Written by
Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerich
Rated: 
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 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 (Amazon.com)
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