Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Steve de Souza and Jeb Stuart. It is an adaptation of the 1979 bestselling novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp following off-duty New York City Police Department officer John McClane (Bruce Willis) as he takes on a group of highly organized criminals in a Los Angeles skyscraper led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), who perform a heist under the guise of a terrorist attack using hostages, including McClane's wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), to keep the police at bay.NYPD detective John McClane arrives in Los Angeles to reconcile with his estranged wife, Holly. Limo driver Argyle drives McClane to her company headquarters, the Nakatomi Plaza building, for their Christmas party. While McClane retreats to the bathroom to freshen up after his plane trip, heavily armed terrorists take the celebrants hostage. German Hans Gruber leads twelve others: Karl, Franco, Tony, Theo, Alexander, Marco, Kristoff, Eddie, Uli, Heinrich, Fritz and James. McClane slips away, in undershirt and bare feet, armed only with his service pistol.
Gruber singles out Nakatomi executive Joseph Takagi, claiming he will
teach the corporation a lesson against greed. Away from the hostages,
Gruber interrogates Takagi for the computer code to access the building
vault. Gruber admits that terrorism is a cover story for stealing $640
million in bearer bonds from the vault. Takagi refuses to cooperate and is executed while McClane secretly observes.McClane kills Karl's brother Tony, takes his weapon and uses his radio to contact the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department), who send Sgt. Al Powell to investigate, while Hans sends two men to stop McClane. McClane kills Heinrich and Marco, taking a bag of C-4 explosives and detonators. Gruber sends Eddie, who is dressed as a building security guard to meet Powell, who leaves satisfied until McClane drops Marco's corpse from an upper window onto his patrol car. This alerts the terrorists, who fire on the car as Powell drives away in reverse. Powell alerts LAPD, who quickly arrive and surround the building.
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