Fiction
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1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Based on the novel "Nothing lasts forever" by Roderick Thorp
Die hard / Twentieth Century Fox presents a Gordon Company/Silver Pictures production ; a John McTiernan film ; screenplay by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. De Souza ; produced by Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver ; directed by John McTiernan (132 min.)
New York detective John McClane has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his family. As he waits for his estranged wife's office Christmas party to break up, German terrorists occupy the building, and McClane wages a one-man war to stop them
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1988
Special features include: Commentary by director John McTiernan and production designer Jackson DeGovia; scene-specific commentary by special effects supervisor Richard Edlund; subtitle commentary by various cast and crew; branching version with the extended power shutdown scene cut back in
Director of photographpy, Jan De Bont ; film editors, Frank J. Urioste and John F. Link ; music by Michael Kamen
Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald Veljohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, Hart Bochner
MPAA rating: R
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen 2.35:1 ; Dolby Digital or DTS 5.1, Dolby surround
Soundtrack in English or French with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned in English
Added to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry in 2017
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Gordon, Lawrence, 1936- film producer
Stuart, Jeb, 1833-1864, screenwriter
McTiernan, John, film director
Godunov, Alexander, 1949-1995, actor
Veljohnson, Reginald, 1952- actor
Gleason, Paul, 1939-2006, actor
Thorp, Roderick. Motion picture adaptation of (work): Nothing lasts forever
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Gordon Company, production company
Silver Pictures, production company
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., film distributor