Die Hard 2
Die harder.
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- Director
- Renny Harlin
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Action
- Worldwide
- $240M
Who's in it
Cast
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Story overview
What It's About
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One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.
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The record
Awards
0 wins · 1 nomination
Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film
No wins yet · 1 nomination
- WinnerJapan Academy Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Die Hard 2 returned 3.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $70M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $240M
- Release date
- Jul 3, 1990
- Runtime
- 2h 4m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Country
- United States of America
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