Independence Day

Independence Day1996

Director: Roland Emmerich
Stars: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 145 minutes

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… more »



[Inside Air Force One, David, Connie, General Grey, and Nimzicki are all talking at once, after David objects to them using nuclear weapons]

Nimzicki:
Shut up! Captain, get him out of here!

Julius:
Hey, don't tell him to shut up! [lets it sink in] You'd all be dead now if it wasn't for my David! None of you did anything to prevent this!

General Grey:
There was nothing we could do! We were totally unprepared for this!

Julius:
Bah! Don't give me "unprepared"!

Constance:
Come on, Julius, come on.... [tries to take Julius back]

Julius:
It was, what? In the 19-- what, 50s? Whatever; when you had that spaceship.

David:
Dad.

Julius:
Yeah, that thing you found in New Mexico! Where was that?

David:
Dad, no, not the spaceship, no.

Julius:
Roswell. Roswell, New Mexico, yeah! No, you had the spaceship and you had the bodies! They were locked up in a, in a bunker. Where was that? David?

Constance:
I don't know.

Julius:
In Area 51, right? Area 51?! You knew then! [hissing] And you did nothing!

President Whitmore:
Sir, regardless of what you may have read in the tabloids, there has never been any spacecraft recovered by our government. Take my word for it. There's no Area 51. There's no recovered spaceship.

Nimzicki:
Uh, excuse me, Mr. President? That's not entirely accurate.

[uncomfortable silence amongst all on board]

David:
What, which part?

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