Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.
- helicopter
- airport
- based on novel or book
- ambush
- cop
- sequel
- snow
- shootout
- terrorism
- explosion
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Franco Nero — General Ramon Esperanza
- William Atherton — Richard Thornberg
- Dennis Franz — Capt. Carmine Lorenzo
- Art Evans — Leslie Barnes
- Fred Thompson — Trudeau
- Tom Bower — Marvin
- Sheila McCarthy — Samantha 'Sam' Coleman
- Don Harvey — Garber
- Reginald VelJohnson — Sgt. Al Powell
- Tony Ganios — Baker
- Peter Nelson — Thompson
- Directed
- Renny Harlin
- Written
- Doug Richardson, Steven E. de Souza
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 6,566 ratings
- Studio
- Gordon Company, Silver Pictures, 20th Century Fox
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1988Die Hard
Where it starts.
Die Hard 2
1990 · You’re here
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995
Live Free or Die Hard
2007
A Good Day to Die Hard
2013
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
