Independence Day
Movie • 1996 • Action
ReportThis movie contains 26 potentially triggering events.
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Boomer will live.
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bricker
The aliens look a lot like bugs at certain points.
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A character has been telling everyone for years that they were abducted but no one believed him, said he was crazy.
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One character is an alcoholic, which is played for laughs
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Cigars and alcohol
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Russel is an alcoholic
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PepperPhoenix
A scientist is grabbed but the throat and lifted up by an alien.
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No on-camera assault but there are multiple jokes about aliens sexually abusing a character.
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pingo1387
A group of men joke about another man being anally probed by aliens during his alleged abduction.
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Close-up of an alien’s exoskeleton being cut into by a scalpel.
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There are multiple city-sized explosions all over the world. It is not graphically depicted on camera.
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An alien's tentacle is wrapped around a scientist's throat.
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Very little human gore, but there is an alien vivisection scene.
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A character tries to maneuver a plane too quickly and loses oxygen to his brain (?), then pulls off his mask and says “I can’t breathe.”
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An alien is punched out by Will Smith's character.
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bricker
Arguably the aliens were, but no humans are tortured.
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bricker
Nameless, faceless children certainly die, but all of the child characters featured on screen live.
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Pantalones
A character flies his plane into the alien spaceship to blow it up.
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Likely millions die in the initial attacks on major Earth cities. Many soldiers are also seen dying while fighting the aliens.
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A major character flies his plane into an alien mothership near the end of the film.
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Aliens. They are all evil, though.
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The First Lady dies and her daughter asks “Did mommy go to sleep?”
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Russel mentions that he was abducted by aliens.
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Pantalones
During the scene in Area 51 when the exoskeleton is opened, the alien has a few jump scares related to it.
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bricker
One of the aliens possesses a human scientist, using him to speak.
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A boy gets car sick.
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PepperPhoenix
This is set pre-9/11. However, the destruction of the city begins with a skyscraper exploding and the fireball and destruction spreading through the city. Some may find this too close to 9/11 imagery for comfort.
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pingo1387
Not police officers specifically, but the American military is glorified and shown as heroes.
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A woman says goodbye to her husband and child while in hospital bed before her death.
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it also makes that noise when communicating with the scientist.
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a main character flies his plane into another ship to destroy it, dying in the process. so, yes.
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Russel makes a Kamikaze run on a flying saucer.
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Arguably, Russell has PTSD from his abduction experience.
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damalojo
Not exactly but may be difficult for some. A woman, her child, and dog are in a road tunnel as the fire from a blast catches up with them, so they escape through a maintenance door.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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thespianscreed
Heavy strobe light effects when an alien attacks and destroys a military base hospital room.
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Pantalones
No f-bombs but Will Smith says "shit" and "hell." There is also some talk of aliens probing and sexually abusing a man.
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bricker
Noone in this movie is explicitly lgbtq, but there are two gay-coded men who die early on.
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Jimmy jokes about kissing b**t.
A hillbilly teases Russel by asking him if the aliens probed" him.
Jewel is a stripper.
A teenager asks his girlfriend if she doesn't want to die a virgin.
A hillbilly teases Russel by asking him if the aliens probed" him.
Jewel is a stripper.
A teenager asks his girlfriend if she doesn't want to die a virgin.
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very brief scene of a main character working in a strip club. nothing is shown though.
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Several obviously homeless people are shown in shots of New York City when the alien craft is settling over the city.
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Air Force II is knocked out of the sky.
Several fighter jets and flying saucers are shot down.
Russel deliberately crashes his plane into a flying saucer's city-buster cannon.
Several fighter jets and flying saucers are shot down.
Russel deliberately crashes his plane into a flying saucer's city-buster cannon.
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A taxicab is flung into another man's car, who has just enough time to swear.
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Numerous car horns are heard in traffic scenes and while the cities are being blasted.
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Several soldiers shoot an alien. Happens in Area 51 scene.
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KEdRuss
Several cities and landmarks (including the White House) are blown to kingdom come by an alien death cannon -- something that was a massive selling point in the film's marketing. Later in the film, the US military retaliate with their own nuclear strike that ultimately fails. SPOILER: The climax ends with a nuclear bomb being detonated within an alien mothership.
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