Die Hard 2: Die Harder

Bruce Willis is back as wisecracking Det. John McLane in this spectacular sequel. While awaiting the arrival of his wife's plane at Washington's Dulles Airport, McLane uncovers a terrorist scheme that involves holding the airport at bay and freeing a dictator incarcerated by U.S. troops.

Titles and Opticals by Pacific Title. Budget estimate $62 million; Began shooting November 28, 1989; Completed shooting April 6, 1990; Released in USA July 4, 1990. Shot on location in Los Angeles, California, Alpena and Kinross, Michigan, in Panavision and DeLuxe color. Working title for the film was "Die Hard II: Taking of Los Angeles International." Rated BBFC 15 by the British Board of Film Censors. Copyright 1990 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Renegade commandos seize a major international airport to rescue a drug lord from justice. Detective McClane, there to meet his wife, must battle incompetent airport security, hard-headed, gung-ho anti-terrorist squads and a deadly winter snowstorm to break the terrorist's grip before his wife's plane runs out of fuel. Based on the novel "58 Minutes" by Walter Wager.

An action-packed sequel to the 1989 film "Die Hard." While former New York City cop John McClane, now a member of the Los Angeles Police Department, waits to pick up his wife in DC's Dulles Airport, gunmen suddenly commandeer the building. They're intent on rescuing a drug-dealing foreign despot who's being brought to the US to stand trial. And once again McClane finds himself enmeshed in a terrorist plot that only he can prevent...