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Die Hard 2
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Die Hard 2 is a 1990 action film directed by Renny Harlin that follows John McClane as he battles terrorists at an airport on Christmas Eve. The film was a major commercial success that helped establish the action movie franchise and demonstrated the viability of sequels in the genre.
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7.0One 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.
Cast
- Bruce Willis as John McClane
- Bonnie Bedelia as Holly McClane
- William Sadler as Stuart
- John Amos as Major Grant
- Franco Nero as General Ramon Esperanza
- William Atherton as Richard Thornberg
Themes
- helicopter
- airport
- based on novel or book
- ambush
- cop
- sequel
- snow
- shootout
- terrorism
- explosion
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Ratings
IMDb
7.2/10
405,542 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
68%
Metacritic
67/100
- Year
- 1990
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Genres
- Action, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Renny Harlin
- Screenplay by
- Steven E. de Souza Doug Richardson
- Based on
- 58 Minutes , by Walter Wager Characters , by Roderick Thorp
- Produced by
- Charles Gordon Lawrence Gordon Joel Silver
- Starring
- Bruce Willis Bonnie Bedelia William Atherton Reginald VelJohnson Franco Nero William Sadler John Amos
- Cinematography
- Oliver Wood
- Edited by
- Stuart Baird Robert A. Ferretti
- Music by
- Michael Kamen
- Production companies
- Gordon Company Silver Pictures
- Distributed by
- 20th Century Fox
- Release date
- July 4, 1990 ( 1990-07-04 )
- Running time
- 124 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $60–70 million
- Box office
- $240 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 124
- FilmAffinity ID
- 777014
- Official website
- www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/die-hard-2
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- publication date
- 1990-10-25
- title
- Die Hard 2
- box office
- 117540947
- capital cost
- 70000000
- review score
- 67/100
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Die Hard 2 (also known by its tagline Die Harder or Die Hard 2: Die Harder) is a 1990 American action film directed by Renny Harlin, written by Steven E. de Souza and Doug Richardson, co-produced by Joel Silver, and starring Bruce Willis as John McClane alongside Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, Art Evans, William Atherton, Franco Nero, Dennis Franz, Fred Thompson, John Amos and Reginald VelJohnson. The sequel to Die Hard (1988) and the second installment in the Die Hard film series, the film was released on July 4, 1990 by 20th Century Fox, in the United States.
As with the first film, the action in Die Hard 2 takes place during Christmas, but on a non-specified day during Christmas week rather than on Christmas Eve. McClane is waiting for his wife Holly to land at Washington Dulles International Airport when terrorists take over the air traffic control system. He must stop the terrorists before Holly's plane and several other incoming flights that are circling the airport run out of fuel and crash. During the night, McClane must also contend with airport police and military commander Grant, none of whom want his assistance.