Product Description

Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia. An NYC cop visiting his estranged wife in LA must save her and the rest of her company from terrorists who have taken over her office building. 1988/color/131 min/R.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12015 in DVD
• Brand: WILLIS,BRUCE
• Released on: 2007-11-20
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Cantonese, English, French, Korean, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 131 minutes

Amazon.com
This seminal 1988 thriller made Bruce Willis a star and established a new template for action stories: "Terrorists take over a (blank), and a lone hero, unknown to the villains, is trapped with them." In Die Hard, those bad guys, led by the velvet-voiced Alan Rickman, assume control of a Los Angeles high-rise with Willis's visiting New York cop inside. The attraction of the film has as much to do with the sight of a barefoot mortal running around the guts of a modern office tower as it has to do with the plentiful fight sequences and the bond the hero establishes with an LA beat cop. Bonnie Bedelia plays Willis's wife, Hart Bochner is good as a brash hostage who tries negotiating his way to freedom, Alexander Godunov makes for a believable killer with lethal feet, and William Atherton is slimy as a busybody reporter. Exceptionally well directed by John McTiernan. --Tom Keogh