DIE HARD - Bijou After Hours

Showings

Ped Mall -Scene 1 Sat, Dec 13, 2014 11:00 PM
Film Info
Rating:R
Runtime:132 mins
Director:John McTiernan
Year Released:1988
Production Country:USA

Description

Presented as part of Bijou After Hours, a late-night film series featuring cult classics, fan favorites and modern genre films.

Free admission for UI students with valid ID. $5 for general public admission. Tickets available at the door only.

DIE HARD

"Still the definitive action thriller" - Total Film

"Yippee-ki-yay, action fans." -Daily Telegraph

"The very pinnacle of the '80s action movie, and if it's not the greatest action movie ever made, then it's damn close." -Empire Magazine

It's Christmas time in L.A., and there's an employee party in progress on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), who plan to steal the 600 million dollars locked in Nakatomi's high-tech safe. In truth, Gruber and his henchmen are only pretending to be politically motivated to throw the authorities off track; also in truth, Gruber has no intention of allowing anyone to get out of the building alive. Meanwhile, New York cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) has come to L.A. to visit his estranged wife, Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), who happens to be one of the hostages. Disregarding the orders of the authorities surrounding the building, McClane, who fears nothing (except heights), takes on the villains, armed with one handgun and plenty of chutzpah. Until Die Hard came along, Bruce Willis was merely that wisecracking guy on Moonlighting. After the film's profits started rolling in, Willis found himself one of the highest-paid and most sought-after leading men in Hollywood (Rovi).