Die Hard, 1988

Genres:	Action, Crime
Taglines:	40 Storeys High - with Suspense, Excitement and Adventure on every level!, 40 Stories Of Sheer Adventure!, He's the only chance anyone has got., High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages and declared war. One man has managed to escape. An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got., It will blow you through the back wall of the theater!, It's Christmas Eve In L.A. And The Party Action's About To Explode... On The Fortieth Floor!, Suspense, Excitement, Adventure, On every level!, Twelve terrorists. One cop. The odds are against John McClane... That's just the way he likes it.
Plot Summary:	New York cop John McClane, who has been a cop for 11 years, has just arrived in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. For the past six months, John's wife Holly and their two kids Lucy McClane and John McClane Jr have been living in Los Angeles without John. In New York, Holly had a good job that turned into a career, and Holly was promoted to a powerful position in the Nakatomi Corporation. The promotion called for Holly to move to Los Angeles to work in the Nakatomi Plaza, a 40 story building. John stayed in New York because he didn't think Holly would make it out in Los Angeles, and that she would come crawling back to him in New York, so John figured that there was no reason to pack his things for the move to Los Angeles. A limo driver named Argyle drives John to the Nakatomi Plaza, and John heads to the 30th floor, where a Christmas party is going on. John gets into an argument with Holly in the office of her drug-snorting co-worker Harry Ellis because Holly uses her maiden name Gennero instead of the name McClane on her nameplate in her office. Holly leaves the room to give a speech. While John is by himself in the office, John is wishing that the argument hadn't happened. A few minutes later, a group of German terrorists led by Hans Gruber and his right hand man Karl enter the building and take everyone hostage on the 30th floor. John is able to avoid being taken hostage because Hans and his men don't even know that John is in the building. John heads to the upper floors, which are still under construction. Hans takes Holly's boss Joseph Yashinobo Takagi to an office, where Hans demands that Takagi give him the computer code key that will allow Hans and his men to start opening the building's safe so they can steal the $640,000,000 in negotiable bearer bonds that are in the safe. Takagi refuses to cooperate with Hans, so Hans kills Takagi, and John witnesses it. Hans tells his technology expert Theo to start working on getting the safe opened, and Theo thinks it'll take a couple of hours to do it. John frantically tries to find a way to alert the LAPD, realizing that the main phone lines in the building have been cut. Once the police do arrive, they prove to be incompetent under the command of arrogant deputy chief Dwayne T. Robinson, so it's up to John to rescue the hostages.
Actors:	Rickman, Alan - Hans Gruber Bedelia, Bonnie - Holly Gennero McClane Atherton, William - Richard Thornburg Johnson, Reginald - Sgt. Al Powell Hayden, Dennis - Eddie VelJohnson, Reginald - Sgt. Al Powell Davi, Robert - FBI Special Agent Johnson Willis, Bruce - John McClane Shigeta, James - Joseph Takagi Gilyard Jr., Clarence - Theo Wisniewski, Andreas - Tony Doyon, Bruno - Franco Godunov, Alexander - Karl Gleason, Paul - Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson White, De'voreaux - Argyle Bochner, Hart - Harry Ellis
Directors:	McTiernan, John
IMDB Rating:	8,1 out of 10 (89544)

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