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Die Hard
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R,1hr 54min
Genre:
Action
Released:
July 15, 1988
Director:
John McTiernan
Distributor:
20th Century Fox
Starring:
Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia  ...more
Synopsis: It's Christmas time in L.A., and there's an employee party in progress on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), who plan to steal the 600 million dollars locked in Nakatomi's high-tech safe. In truth, Gruber and his henchmen are only pretending to be politically motivated to throw the authorities off track; also in truth, Gruber has no intention of ... Full Synopsis
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Bruce Eder
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John McTiernan's Die Hard introduced a type of character that hadn't been seen much in big-budget action films of the 1980s: the working-class hero. Apart from Sylvester Stallone's first Rambo movie and some of the cruder, decidedly low-budget martial arts movies starring Chuck Norris, there wasn't a precedent for Bruce Willis' gruff John McClane. In contrast to its predecessors, Die Hard was such ... Full Review
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Bruce Willis
John McClane
Alan Rickman
Hans Gruber
Bonnie Bedelia
Holly Gennero McClane
Alexander Godunov
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