Die Hard 2

1990 · 2h04 · Film

Directed by Renny Harlin

Starring Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, John Amos, Franco Nero, William Atherton, Dennis Franz, Art Evans, Fred Thompson, Tom Bower

Ideal when you feel… Calm Stressed Romantic

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.

Original language

English

Screenplay

Doug Richardson, Steven E. de Souza, Walter Wager

Music

Michael Kamen

Cinematography

Oliver Wood, Kim Marks

Cast

John Amos, Franco Nero, William Atherton, Dennis Franz, Art Evans, Fred Thompson, Tom Bower, Sheila McCarthy, Don Harvey

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