Overview
- Rotten Tomatoes has ranked Independence Day as Bill Pullman’s most iconic film role
- The 1996 alien-invasion blockbuster continues to dominate Fourth of July programming on Disney+ and broadcast networks
- The original film grossed $817.4 million worldwide on a $75 million budget and holds a 68% critics score and 75% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes
- Its 2016 sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence, received just a 29% critics score and roughly a 30% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes
- Late-stage edits removed all F-bombs from Harvey Fierstein’s dialogue to secure a PG-13 rating over a near miss with an R classification