Die harder.
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.
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Character
Classical in form, resolved, relentless and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
Who loves it, who doesn't
68 profiled raters. Loved most by The Thrill Chasers; disliked most by The Prestige Hunters.
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Cast
- Bruce WillisJohn McClane
- Bonnie BedeliaHolly McClane
- William SadlerStuart
- John AmosMajor Grant
- Franco NeroGeneral Ramon Esperanza
- William AthertonRichard Thornberg
- Dennis FranzCapt. Carmine Lorenzo
- Art EvansLeslie Barnes
- Fred ThompsonTrudeau
- Tom BowerMarvin
Crew
- Renny HarlinDirector
- Doug RichardsonScreenplay
- Steven E. de SouzaScreenplay
- Walter WagerNovel
- Oliver WoodDirector of Photography
- Michael KamenOriginal Music Composer
- Stuart BairdEditor
- Robert A. FerrettiEditor
- Joel SilverProducer
- Lawrence GordonProducer
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Pairings
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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