Die hard

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The Resource Die hard

Statement of responsibility: Twentieth Century Fox presents a Gordon Company/Silver Pictures production, a John McTiernan film ; produced by Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver ; screenplay by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza ; directed by John McTiernan

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Summary: It's Christmas time in L.A. and on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building there's an employee party in progress. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber, who plans to steal the 600 million dollars locked in Nakatomi's high-tech safe. Gruber and his henchmen pretend to be politically motivated in order to throw the authorities off track. Gruber has no intention of allowing anyone to get out of the building alive. Meanwhile, New York cop John McClane has come to L.A. to visit his estranged wife, Holly, who happens to be one of the hostages. Disregarding the orders of the authorities surrounding the building, McClane takes on the villains, armed with one handgun and plenty of cunning

Credits note: Director of photography, Jan De Bont ; editors, Frank J. Urioste, John F. Link ; music, Michael Kamen ; costume designer, Marilyn Vance-Straker ; production designer, Jackson DeGovia ; visual effects producer, Richard Edlund

Language note: English (DTS 5.1, Dolby surround), French (Dolby 5.1) or dubbed Spanish (Dolby 5.1) dialogue, Cantonese, English, Korean or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

PerformerNote: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia

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