DIE HARD W-HOLIDAY THEMED O-RING (DVD/1 DISC/SENSORMATIC)-NLA DVD

Die Hard
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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast Bruce Willis as John McClane Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber Bonnie Bedelia as Holly Gennero McClane Alexander Godunov as Karl Reginald VelJohnson as Sgt. Al Powell William Atherton as Thornburg Paul Gleason as Dwayne T. Robinson De'Voreaux White as Argyle Hart Bochner as Ellis James Shigeta as Takagi Robert Davi as Big Johnson Grand L. Bush as Little Johnson Clarence Gilyard Jr. as Theo

Crew John R. Jensen - Art Director Beau Marks - Associate Producer Jackie Burch - Casting Art Fransen - Consultant/advisor Marilyn Vance - Costume Designer Benjamin Rosenberg - First Assistant Director John McTiernan - Director Beau Marks - Second Unit Director John F. Link - Editor Frank J. Urioste - Editor Charles Gordon - Executive Producer Michael Kamen - Composer (Music Score) Scott Eddo - Makeup Jackson de Govia - Production Designer Jan de Bont - Cinematographer Joel Silver - Producer Lawrence Gordon - Producer E.C. Chen - Set Designer Roland Hill - Set Designer Phillip Leonard - Set Designer Al di Sarro - Special Effects Richard Edlund - Special Effects Al Overton - Sound/Sound Designer Chuck Picerni, Jr. - Stunts Charlie Picerni - Stunts Coordinator Jeb Stuart - Screenwriter Steven E. de Souza - Screenwriter Brent Boates - Visual Effects Thaine Morris - Visual Effects Roderick Thorp - Book Author

Die Hard
John McTiernan's Die Hard introduced a type of character that hadn't been seen much in big-budget action films of the 1980s: the working-class hero. Apart from Sylvester Stallone's first Rambo movie and some of the cruder, decidedly low-budget martial arts movies starring Chuck Norris, there wasn't a precedent for Bruce Willis' gruff John McClane. In contrast to its predecessors, Die Hard was such a high-profile production that Willis was suddenly elevated to the status of cultural icon, not unlike Sean Connery and his alter ego, James Bond. Willis and McTiernan can take credit for bringing back the kind of distinctly American, masculine swagger John Wayne used to bring to his roles, albeit with a dirtier lexicon of catchphrases than Wayne ever would have used on camera. The director and his crew of special effects experts could also take credit for a series of explosions that rivaled the firepower and energy expended in Wayne's Hellfighters, Back to Bataan, Sands of Iwo Jima, Chisum, and The Longest Day. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide
 

Al Overton: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Sound (nominated) Al di Sarro: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Visual Effects (nominated) Brent Boates: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Visual Effects (nominated) Don Bassman: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Sound (nominated) Frank J. Urioste: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Editing (nominated) John F. Link: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Editing (nominated) Kevin F. Cleary: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Sound (nominated) Richard Edlund: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Visual Effects (nominated) Richard Overton: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Sound (nominated) Richard Shorr: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Sound Effects (nominated) Stephen Flick: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Sound Effects (nominated) Thaine Morris: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Visual Effects (nominated)

General Specifications: Language Options: English, French Subtitle Options: English, Spanish Sound Processing: DD5.1: Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel DTS: Digital Theater Systems (akin to 5.1) DDS2.0: Dolby Digital w/ 4 channels of sound from a 2-channel stereo mix. Additional 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 and crew Branching version with the extended power shutdown scene cut back in DVD Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1: Cinemascope MPAA Rating: R DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 132 min   DVD Chapters: Disc #1 -- Die Hard 1. Landing in L.A. [:22] 2. Festival Night [:07] 3. McClane Residence [1:18] 4. Argyle [:09] 5. The Limo [:24] 6. Nakatomi Plaza [1:36] 7. Takagi & Ellis [1:14] 8. Reunited [:57] 9. Univited Guests [1:41] 10. Separation Anxiety [1:10] 11. Hostile Takeover [2:57] 12. Disconnected Parties [1:19] 13. Party Crashers [:45] 14. Meet Hans Gruber [:15] 15. Industrialization & Men's Fashions [2:39] 16. Fill in the Blanks [4:02] 17. The Vault [1:41] 18. False Alarm [1:19] 19. I Promise I Won't Hurt You [:51] 20. Ho Ho Ho [1:57] 21. Blood Lust [1:59] 22. Mayday [2:33] 23. Twinkie Patrol [2:00] 24. The Shaft [:44] 25. Not a Creature Stirring [1:17] 26. Welcome to the Party, Pal [2:52] 27. Dick Thornburg [:44] 28. Mr. Mystery Guest [3:29] 29. KFLW News [:50] 30. Missing Detonators [1:54] 31. L.A.'s Finest [:42] 32. Going In [1:58] 33. LAPD RV [2:44] 34. Chair Bomb [1:54] 35. Contract Negotiations [4:09] 36. Issuing Demands [:53] 37. Hostage Terrorist, Terrorist Hostage [:12] 38. Johnson & Johnson [:43] 39. Cat and Mouse [2:10] 40. Shoot the Glass [:49] 41. Powell's Confession [2:39] 42. Merry Christmas From the FBI [3:25] 43. McClane's Confession [3:43] 44. Nightly News [1:28] 45. Vendetta [2:22] 46. Meeting Mrs. McClane [3:04] 47. Choppers up the Ass [:50] 48. The Roof [6:05] 49. Escape Plan Foiled [:50] 50. Showdown [2:39] 51. Happy Trails, Hans [:37] 52. Partner's Meet [:39] 53. Powell's Comeback [2:33] 54. Let It Snow [3:03] 55. End Credits [2:39]