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Die Hard 2
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.
1990 · Directed by Renny Harlin · 124 min · Action · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 11 frames
Tagline
Die harder.
Plot
On an unspecified day during Christmas week, two years after the events of the previous film, John McClane is now a lieutenant with the LAPD, who arrives at Dulles International Airport to pick up his wife, Holly. He is met with hostility from airport police officer Vito Lorenzo, who issues him a parking ticket. Meanwhile, a plane carrying corrupt foreign military leader General Ramon Esperanza is headed to Dulles under extradition for using U.S. funds to buy drugs.
Waiting to meet Esperanza's plane is disgraced former United States Army Colonel William Stuart and a group of ex-military sympathizers who supported Esperanza's actions. McClane follows two of Stuart's men into a baggage sorting area where a gun fight ensues. He kills one man, but the other escapes.
With the help of his friend Sergeant Al Powell, McClane runs the dead man's fingerprints. They correspond to an American soldier who was listed as having died in a helicopter accident two years earlier. McClane reports his concerns to the ill-tempered airport police chief Carmine Lorenzo and air traffic control director Ed Trudeau, but neither believes him.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Doug Richardson, Steven E. de Souza
- Cinematography: Oliver Wood
- Edited by: Robert A. Ferretti, Stuart Baird
- Music: Michael Kamen
- Production design: John Vallone
- Produced by: Joel Silver, Charles Gordon, Lawrence Gordon
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
- Dennis Franz as Capt. Carmine Lorenzo
- Art Evans as Leslie Barnes
- Fred Thompson as Trudeau
- Tom Bower as Marvin
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Spanish
- Studios: Gordon Company, Silver Pictures, 20th Century Fox
- Budget: $70,000,000
- Box office: $240,031,094
- Themes: helicopter, airport, based on novel or book, ambush, cop, sequel, snow, shootout, terrorism, explosion
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