Overview

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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Nominations
Nominated for the Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film (1991)
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Box office
Grossed $240M worldwide, about 3.4 times its $70M budget
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Based on
Based on the novel 58 Minutes
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Filming locations
Filmed in San Francisco, California, Los Angeles and 2 other locations
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Setting
Set in Washington Dulles International Airport and Washington, D.C.
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Sequels
Follows Die Hard and is followed by Die Hard with a Vengeance
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Collection
Part of Die Hard Collection
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Music
Music by Michael Kamen
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Director: Renny Harlin
Writers: Steven E. de SouzaScreenplay
Doug RichardsonScreenplay
Walter WagerNovel
Roderick ThorpCharacters
Status: Released
Release date: July 3, 1990
Original language: English
Budget: $70M
Revenue: $240M
Countries: United States of America
Collection: Die Hard Collection

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