Cover Image

Die hard /

Show other versions (2)

It's Christmas time in L.A. and on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building there's an employee party in progress. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber, who plans to steal the 600 million dollars...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Die hard (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Gordon Company, Silver Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Other Authors: Gordon, Lawrence, 1936-, Silver, Joel, Stuart, Jeb, De Souza, Steve, McTiernan, John, Willis, Bruce, 1955-, Rickman, Alan, Godunov, Alexander, 1949-1995, Bedelia, Bonnie, 1946-, Thorp, Roderick
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
French
Spanish
Language Notes:English (DTS 5.1, Dolby surround), French (Dolby 5.1) or dubbed Spanish (Dolby 5.1) dialogue, Cantonese, English, Korean or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Published: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2007]
Edition:[Blu-ray version.].
Subjects:
Parties > California > Los Angeles > Drama.
Hostages > California > Los Angeles > Drama.
Terrorists > California > Los Angeles > Drama.
Los Angeles (Calif.). > Police Department > Drama.
United States. > Federal Bureau of Investigation > Drama.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Drama.
Feature films.
Action and adventure films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Adventure > Feature.
Thriller > Feature.
Crime > Feature.
Police > Feature.
Adventure films.
Suspense films.
Description
Summary:It's Christmas time in L.A. and on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building there's an employee party in progress. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber, who plans to steal the 600 million dollars locked in Nakatomi's high-tech safe. Gruber and his henchmen pretend to be politically motivated in order to throw the authorities off track. Gruber has no intention of allowing anyone to get out of the building alive. Meanwhile, New York cop John McClane has come to L.A. to visit his estranged wife, Holly, who happens to be one of the hostages. Disregarding the orders of the authorities surrounding the building, McClane takes on the villains, armed with one handgun and plenty of cunning.
Item Description:Based on the novel "Nothing lasts forever" by Roderick Thorp.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1988.
Special features: Commentary by director John McTiernan and production designer Jackson DeGovia; scene-specific commentary by special effects supervisor Richard Edlund; subtitle commentary by various cast ansd crew; personal scene selections; Enhanced for D-Box Motion Control Systems; "The news casts" featurette; interactive still gallery; interactive articles from Cinefex and American Cinematographer; full-legth screenlay; trailers & TV spots.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:Blu-ray Disc; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital DTS 5.1 Master Lossless surround, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital surround, AVC@28 MBPS, 50GB, dual-layer.
This Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players.
Audience:MPAA rating: R.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Jan De Bont ; editors, Frank J. Urioste, John F. Link ; music, Michael Kamen ; costume designer, Marilyn Vance-Straker ; production designer, Jackson DeGovia ; visual effects producer, Richard Edlund.