• Producer: Fox
  • Length: 132
Also on: NES
9.4
1 want | 33 own | 18 completed
Release Dates NA Jul 15, 88 EU Feb 3, 89 AU Oct 6, 88
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9.4

Bruce Willis at his best!

Release Date: 1988
Genre: Action/Crime/Thriller
Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Runtime:...

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Story

This seminal 1988 thriller made Bruce Willis a star and established a new template for action stories: "Terrorists take over a (blank), and a lone hero, unknown to the villains, is trapped with them." In Die Hard, those bad guys, led by the velvet-voiced Alan Rickman, assume control of a Los Angeles high-rise with Willis's visiting New York cop inside. The attraction of the film has as much to do with the sight of a barefoot mortal running around the guts of a modern office tower as it has to do with the plentiful fight sequences and the bond the hero establishes with an LA beat cop. Bonnie Bedelia plays Willis's wife, Hart Bochner is good as a brash hostage who tries negotiating his way to freedom, Alexander Godunov makes for a believable killer with lethal feet, and William Atherton is slimy as a busybody reporter. Exceptionally well directed by John McTiernan. --Tom Keogh

DVD Features

  • Color
  • Closed-captioned
  • THX
  • Widescreen

Cast

Bruce WillisOfficer John McClane
Bonnie BedeliaHolly Gennaro McClane
Reginald VelJohnsonSgt. Al Powell
Paul GleasonDeputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson
William AthertonRichard Thornburg
Hart BochnerHarry Ellis
James ShigetaJoseph Yoshinobu Takagi
Alan RickmanHans Gruber
Alexander GodunovKarl
Bruno DoyunFranco
De'voreaux WhiteArgyle

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