Die hard [blu-ray dvd] / 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.
Blu-ray disc. Title from container. Bruce Willis, Alan Ruckman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia. Based on the novel "Nothing lasts forever" by Roderick Thorp. Originally released as a motion picture in 1988. Special features: Commentary by director John McTiernan and production designer Jackson DeGovia; scene-specific commentary by special effects supervisor Richard Edlund; subtitle commentary by various cast ansd crew; personal scene selections; Enhanced for D-Box Motion Control Systems; "The news casts" featurette; interactive still gallery; interactive articles from Cinefex and American Cinematographer; full-legth screenlay; trailers & TV spots.
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.
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