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#123
My Rating:
6
Seen It:
Yes
USA / English
| Bruce Willis |
Det. John McClane |
| Bonnie Bedelia |
Holly Gennero McClane |
| Reginald VelJohnson |
Sgt. Al Powell |
| Paul Gleason |
Dwayne T. Robinson |
| De'voreaux White |
Argyle |
| William Atherton |
Thornburg |
| Hart Bochner |
Ellis |
| James Shigeta |
Takagi |
| Alan Rickman |
Hans Gruber |
| Alexander Godunov |
Karl |
| Dennis Hayden |
Eddie |
| Director |
John McTiernan |
| Producer |
Charles Gordon; Lawrence Gordon |
| Writer |
Roderick Thorp; Jeb Stuart |
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. This film is exceptionally well directed by John McTiernan.
--Tom Keogh
| Barcode |
5024165853580 |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Release Date |
2001 |
| Screen Ratio |
2.35:1 |
| Subtitles |
Danish; Finnish; Hungarian; Icelandic; Norwegian; Polish; Portuguese; Spanish; Swedish |
| Audio Tracks |
English Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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