It's Christmas Time in L.A. and there's a Christmas party on the 30th Floor of the Nakatomi Plaza. It all comes to a halt when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists lead by Hans Gruber who plans to steal the $600 million dollars Locked in Nakatomi's vault. Hans Gruber and his group of henchmen are only pretending to be politically motivated to throw the authorities off track. Hans Gruber has no intention of allowing anyone to get out of the building alive. New York City Police Officer John McClane has come to L.A. to visit his wife, who happens to be one of the hostages. Disregarding the orders of the authorities surrounding the building, John McClane who fears nothing takes on the terrorists armed with one handgun and plenty of explosives. Bruce Willis leads; co-starring Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald Veljohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason; also starring James Shigeta, Burno Doyon, Andreas Wisniewski, Clearence Gilyears, Jr., and De'Voreaux White. John McTiernan directs from the screenplay by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza; Based on the novel by Roderick Thorp. Produced by Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver • Executive Producer: Charles Gordon. Music by Michael Kamen. Visual Effects produced by Richard Edlund • Special VFX in 65mm by Boss Film Corporation. a Gordon Company/Silver Pictures production. Produced and Released by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Filmed in Panavision® in Dolby Stereo® Approved [No. 29160]/rated R. Copyright © 1988 by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved.