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Independence Day Welcome to The Guys Review, where we review media, products and experiences. **READ APPLE REVIEWS/Fan Mail** Mention Twitter DM group - like pinned tweet Read emails Independence Day Directed by: Roland Emmrich Starring: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsh, Robert Loggia, Randy Quaid (would've been two weeks in a row with Randy if we had done Brokeback). Released July 3, 1996 Budget: $75M ($125.8M 2021) Box Office: $817.4M ($1.371B 2021) became the highest-grossing film of 1996 by surpassing Twister and Mission: Impossible . The film also became the second-highest-grossing film ever at the time, behind Jurassic Park. (Avatar is still the highest grossing movie, $2.802B) Ratings: IMDb 7/10 Rotten Tomatoes 67% Metacritic 59% Google Users 89% The film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound. Plot: July 2: We see the plaque Apollo 11 left, and the astronauts boot prints vibrate and sift away, as a shadow falls and the alien space craft flies overhead. SETI head quarters, an alarm sounds and tech calls someone, we hear chatter. They realize the distance is too close, not from an alien planet, but the moon. The Pentagon: A man briefs the Major and the first radar images are shown. He asks how they know it's not a meteor; because it's slowing down. Bill Pullmans President Whitmore takes a call from the first lady, and leaves as she speaks to their daughter. He strolls through the white house for breakfast. He is called by the Secretary of Defense as satellite harmlessly smashes into the alien ship. In Brooklyn, Jeff Goldblum and Judd Hirsh as father and son David and Julius Levinson play chess. David gets checkmate, and as he gets to whatever office he works at, he finds it in a panic, scrambled images, snow, on channel's. He talks of cycling satellites, looks at a print out and utters "that cant be right." Cut to Imperial County California, a man is unhappy about
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