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“Just a fly in the ointment, Hans. The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the ass.”
John McTiernan’s 1988 action blockbuster DIE HARD hit audiences with all the pomp and circumstance of a semi-truck thrown into overdrive, defining action movies for an entire generation and catapulting main lead Bruce Willis into the stratosphere of superstardom.
When off duty NYPD officer John McClane (Willis) journeys to Los Angeles to reconcile with his estranged wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), he’s caught in the worst case of wrong place, wrong time imaginable as a band of terrorist thieves led by the enigmatic yet vicious Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) seize control over the Nakatomi Plaza where Holly works...trapping Holly, John and thirty hostages inside with McClane standing alone as the only man willing and able to fight.
Based on the Roderick Thorp novel Nothing Lasts Forever, the film’s rollicking success led to the further adventures of McClane with 1990’s DIE HARD 2: DIE HARDER, 1995’s DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE, 2007’s LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD and 2013’s A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD with Willis reprising the role in each subsequent film.
From their dynamic stunt work and action sequences to Willis’s performance as a wry, jovial, blue collar everyman thrust into the hero role in spite of his stubborn reluctance and vast number of character flaws, the DIE HARD series has won the hearts of moviegoers time and again.
The DIE HARD series is owned and copyrighted by The Walt Disney Company via Twentieth Century Fox.
“Rock and Roll All Nite (Live),” written by Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, produced by Neil Bogart and KISS and performed by KISS, is owned and copyrighted by Casablanca Records.
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