Die Hard (1988)

Taglines:

High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages and declared war. One man has managed to escape. An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got. See more »

Parents Guide:

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Country:

USA

Language:

English | German | Italian

Release Date:

15 July 1988 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Duro de matar See more »

Filming Locations:

29th-35th Floors, Fox Plaza - 2121 Avenue of the Stars, Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »

Budget:

$28,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$601,851 (USA) (17 July 1988) (21 Screens)

Gross:

$137,400,000 (Worldwide)

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Gordon Company, Lawrence Gordon Productions See more »

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Runtime:

131 min

Sound Mix:

70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Trivia

In the "Making of" Featurette for Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Reginald VelJohnson said that after his appearances in the first two Die Hard films, he would be frequently teased and joked at by friends and people on the street for his character's obsession of Twinkies, with some people even going so far as to buy twinkies and throwing them into his car while he was inside, and saying things like "Oh we knew you wanted some of those". See more »

Goofs

Revealing mistakes: When reporter Richard Thornburg is listening to his police scanner, he hears Officer Powell screaming for backup. At this point the red lights on the front of the scanner are continually blinking from left to right. However, on this particular model scanner the lights would cease blinking, and remain solid on a single channel as long as it was active. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Businessman: You don't like flying, do you?
John McClane: What gives you that idea?
Businessman: You wanna know the secret to surviving air travel? After you get where you're going, take off your shoes and your socks then walk around on the rug bare foot and make fists with your toes.
John McClane: Fists with your toes?
Businessman: I know, I know, it sounds crazy. Trust me, I've been doing it for nine years. Yes sir, better than a shower and a hot cup of coffee.
John McClane: Okay.
[the businessman sees John's gun]
John McClane: It's okay, I'm a cop. Trust me, I've been doing this for eleven years.
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Connections

Referenced in "How I Met Your Mother: Good Crazy (#7.22)" (2012) See more »

Soundtracks

"Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 In G Major, (Allegro Moderato)"
(uncredited)
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach See more »