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#211
Seen It:
Yes
USA / English
| Bruce Willis |
John McClane |
| Reginald VelJohnson |
Sgt. Al Powell |
| Bonnie Bedelia |
Holly Gennero McClane |
| Alexander Godunov |
Karl |
| Paul Gleason |
Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson |
| William Atherton |
Richard Thornburg |
| Hart Bochner |
Harry Ellis |
| Alan Rickman |
Hans Gruber |
| James Shigeta |
Joseph Takagi |
| De'Voreaux White |
Argyle |
| Director |
John McTiernan |
| Producer |
Joel Silver; Lawrence Gordon |
| Writer |
Jeb Stuart; Roderick Thorp |
| Cinematography |
Jan de Bont |
| Musician |
Michael Kamen; James Horner |
This seminal 1988 thriller made Bruce Willis a star and established a new template for action stories: "Terrorists take over a (blank), and a lone hero, unknown to the villains, is trapped with them." In
Die Hard, those bad guys, led by the velvet-voiced Alan Rickman, assume control of a Los Angeles high-rise with Willis's visiting New York cop inside. The attraction of the film has as much to do with the sight of a barefoot mortal running around the guts of a modern office tower as it has to do with the plentiful fight sequences and the bond the hero establishes with an LA beat cop. Bonnie Bedelia plays Willis's wife, Hart Bochner is good as a brash hostage who tries negotiating his way to freedom, Alexander Godunov makes for a believable killer with lethal feet, and William Atherton is slimy as a busybody reporter. Exceptionally well directed by John McTiernan.
--Tom Keogh
| Distributor |
20th Century Fox |
| Edition |
Widescreen Edition |
| Barcode |
0024543133490 |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Release Date |
9/7/2004 |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Screen Ratio |
2.35:1 |
| Subtitles |
English; Spanish; English (Closed Captioned) |
| Audio Tracks |
Dolby Digital 5.1 [English]
DTS 5.1 [English]
Dolby Digital Surround [English]
Dolby Digital Surround [French] |
| Layers |
Single Side, Single Layer |
| No. of Disks/Tapes |
2 |
| Disc 1: |
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Commentary by Director John McTiernan and Production Designer Jackson DeGovia Scene-Specific Commentary by Special Effects Supervisor Richard Edlund Subtitle Commentary by Various Cast and Crew Branching Version with the Extended Power Shutdown Scene Cut Back In |
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