Today’s movie is an action
adventure that happens on December 24. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
DIEHARD
On December 24th NYPD
officer John McClane arrives in Los Angeles to reconcile with his estranged
wife, Holly. He is driven to her company Christmas party by driver Argyle, who
waits in the basement garage of the high rise Nakatmoi Plaza. The party is
broken up by the arrival of a group of terrorists who take over the building,
holding the partygoers as hostages. McClane manages to hide out in the
building. The terrorist are actually
thieves who are trying to steal $40 million in bearer bonds in the vault. They
disable all but one of the security features. McLane manages to acquire a two
way radio and weapons from the terrorists. He makes contact with Powell, a LAPD
officer. The SWAT team is ambushed in spite of McClane’s warnings, but he takes
out the terrorists who killed them. The FBI arrives and takes over. They shut
down power to the building, shutting off the last electronic lock on the vault.
McClane learns the terrorists are placing explosives on the building’s roof and
herding the hostages there. The have asked for a helicopter to take them and
the hostages to the airport. The terrorists plan to blow up the building when
the helicopter lands so the police will think they are dead and stop looking
for them, while they escape in a stolen ambulance from the basement with the
bonds. McClane scares the hostages back downstairs after killing their guards.
The explosives go off with McClane barely escaping. The terrorist leader has
learned that Holly is McClane’s wife and uses her to try and force his surrender.
After a struggle the leader falls out a window, almost dragging Holly with
him. When they leave the building the
are almost shot by a surviving terrorist until Powell kills him. Argyle had
stopped the ambulance from leaving. McClane and Holly are reconciled.
Date given in film at 3:17
Producer - Lawence Gordon and Joel Silver
Director - John McTiernan
Screenplay - Steven E. de Souza and Jeb Stuart
Awards - The film was nominated for the Best Sound Effects
Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing and Best Sound Oscars.
Running Time - 2 hours 11 minutes
Released - July 15, 1988
Starring -
Bruce Willis as Detective John McClane
Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber
Alexander Godunov as Karl Vreski
Bonnie Bedelia as Holly Gennero McClane
Reginald VelJohnson as Sgt. Al Powell
Clarence Darnell Gilyard as Theo
Paul Gleason as Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson
William Atherton as Richard Thornburg
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014
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