Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 145 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
The story
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.
- spacecraft
- showdown
- independence
- patriotism
- countdown
- invasion
- alien
- ufo
- extraterrestrial
- disaster
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Will Smith
Capt. 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. Brackish Okun
- James Duval — Miguel
- Vivica A. Fox — Jasmine Dubrow
- Lisa Jakub — Alicia
- Directed
- Roland Emmerich
- Written
- Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 10,699 ratings
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox, Centropolis Entertainment
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