What is Die Hard?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox Movie | name = Die Hard | image = | image_size = | caption = | director = [[John McTiernan]] | producer = [[Lawrence Gordon]]<br />[[Joel Silver]]<br />[[Charles Gordon]]<br />Beau Marks | writer = '''Novel:'''<br />[[Roderick Thorp]]<br />'''Screenplay:'''<br />[[Jeb Stuart (screenwriter)|Jeb Stuart]]<br />[[Steven E. de Souza]] | narrator = | starring = [[Bruce Willis]]<br />[[Alan Rickman]]<br />[[Bonnie Bedelia]]<br />[[Alexander Godunov]]<br />[[Reginald VelJohnson]]<br />[[Paul Gleason]]<br />[[James Shigeta]] | music = [[Michael Kamen]]<br />[[Chris Boardman]] ''(uncredited)'' | cinematography = [[Jan de Bont]] | editing = John F. Link<br />Frank J. Urioste | distributor = [[20th Century Fox]] | released = July 20, [[1988 in movies|1988]] | runtime = 132 [[minute]]s | country = [[United States]] | language = English, German | budget = $28,000,000 ([[estimate]]d) | gross ='''Domestic:'''<br />$83,008,852<br />'''Worldwide:'''<br /> $140,800,000 }} '''''Die Hard''''' is a 1988 [[United States|American]] [[action movie]] starring [[Bruce Willis]]. It is the first movie in a series, and was followed by four sequels ''[[Die Hard 2]]'' (1990), ''[[Die Hard with a Vengeance]]'' (1995), ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]'' (2007), and ''[[A Good Day to Die Hard]]'' (2013). == Plot == The movie is set on [[Christmas Eve]] at the Nakatomi building in Los Angeles, California. [[NYPD]] officer [[John McClane]] (Bruce Willis) is flying in from New York to meet his wife Holly during the Nakatomi’s annual Christmas party. While there, they get into an argument over Holly's choice to use her [[maiden name]] instead of her [[married name]]. Shortly afterwards, a group of German robbers posing as terrorists led by [[Hans Gruber]] ([[Alan Rickman]]) invade the building and take all the people hostages. They want the [[bond|bearer bonds]] in the building ' s vault and ask the CEO, J