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1988 · 2h 11m · R · Action · Thriller
Rotten Tomatoes 94%Metacritic 72/100IMDb 8.2/10TMDB 7.8/10 (12,487 votes)
Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. It stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia, with Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner in supporting roles. Die Hard follows a New York City police detective, John McClane (Willis), who becomes entangled in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper while visiting his estranged wife during a Christmas Eve party.
Directed by John McTiernan
Box office $141M worldwide
Common Sense Media says it's packed with extreme violence, strong language and brief nudity; parents say age 13+ with strong violence, profanity and mild nudity; FamilyStyle notes abundant profanity, graphic bloody violence and very little nudity and drugs.[1][2][3]
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