"Die Hard" has become the standard by which every action film made since 1988 has been judged and almost invariably found wanting.
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DIE HARD and DIE HARD 2: DIE HARDER
DIE HARD
John McClane is a cop from New York City who is on his way to Los Angeles to see his kids and his wife Holly, who moved to LA because of a job at the Nakatomi Corporation. When he arrives at Nakatomi Plaza, he meets Holly's boss Joe Takagi and her co-worker Harry Ellis. He and Holly go into a private bathroom and get into an argument. When Holly leaves to give a speech, thirteen armed terrorists lead by Hans Gruber seize control of the building and take the occupants of the 30th floor, who are the only ones left in the building, hostage. Luckily, they missed John and he has to figure out how to save the hostages before the terrorists get their way.
Awards won:
• Award of the Japanese Academy • BMI Film Music Award • Blue Ribbon Award • Hochi Film Award • Kinema Junpo Award • Golden Reel Award
Nominated for:
• Academy Award for Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing • Academy Award for Best Effects, Visual Effects • Academy Award for Best Film Editing • Academy Award for Best Sound • Video Premiere Award • Edgar Award
At Dulles International Airport, John McClane is waiting for his wife Holly to land. A while after he arrives at the airport, he feels that something's wrong. He follows two men into the luggage room. They both try to kill him, but he kills one and the other gets away. He gets the dead guy's fingerprints and faxes them to his friend Al Powell over in L.A. The man's name was Oswald Cochrane, and he had been officially dead for two years. John then realizes that someone is about to screw around with the airport, and he's correct. Colonel Stuart, a man who got "canned by congress", as McClane says it, and his team of ex-commandos have taken control of the airport, shutting down the Instrument Landing System and the runways. He then threatens to cause plane crashes unless the plane carrying Ramon Esperanza from Valverde (the fictitious country used in Commando) lands at a runway of his designation. The Chief Engineer and the airport's S.W.A.T. team unsuccessfully try to restore communications with the planes above. Because of this, Stuart crashes a plane. McClane must now try to defeat the terrorists and save his wife before her plane, and all the other planes, run out of fuel. Awards won:
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Starring
Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Paul Gleason, De'voreaux White, William Atherton, Hart Bochner, James Shigeta, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bruno Doyon, Andreas Wisniewski, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Joey Plewa, Lorenzo Caccialanza, William Sadler, Reginald VelJohnson, Franco Nero, John Amos, Dennis Franz, Art Evans, Fred Dalton Thompson, Tom Bower, Sheila McCarthy, Don Harvey, Tony Ganios, Peter Nelson
Format
Dubbed, Colour, PAL, Widescreen
Main soundtrack
English - Dolby Digital 5.1 French - Dolby Digital 5.1 French - Dolby Digital DTS
Subtitles
OFF, English, French, Greek
Special features
• Die Hard: Commentary, Text Commentary, Extended Branching Version • Die Hard 2: Commentary