Die Hard 2
7.2
“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. 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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5 films
Cast
94 people
Bruce Willis
John McClane
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William Sadler
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John Amos
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William Atherton
Richard Thornberg
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Dennis Franz
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Art Evans
Leslie Barnes
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Fred Thompson
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Tom Bower
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Don Harvey
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Renny Harlin Director · Steven E. de Souza Screenplay Doug Richardson Screenplay
Worldwide gross $240M · Budget $70M · United States release July 3, 1990
Box office
Budget
$70,000,000
Worldwide gross
$240,031,094
Gross vs. budget
3.4×
Production
Gordon Company
Production
Silver Pictures
Production
20th Century Fox
Production
20th Century Studios
Studio · Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Spanish
Release dates
United States · July 2, 1990
Premiere · Los Angeles, California
United States · July 3, 1990
Theatrical
Argentina
August 23, 1990 · Theatrical
Australia
August 30, 1990 · Theatrical
Brazil
August 24, 1990 · Theatrical
Canada
July 4, 1990 · Theatrical
Colombia
October 4, 1990 · Theatrical
Denmark
September 28, 1990 · Theatrical
Estonia
December 25, 2019 · Theatrical
Finland
August 17, 1990 · Theatrical
France
October 3, 1990 · Theatrical
February 23, 2021 · Digital · Disney+
Germany
October 25, 1990 · Theatrical
Greece
October 25, 1990 · Theatrical
Hungary
December 13, 1990 · Theatrical
Iceland
August 17, 1990 · Theatrical
Ireland
August 31, 1990 · Theatrical
Italy
October 19, 1990 · Theatrical
Japan
September 21, 1990 · Theatrical
Mexico
October 17, 2006 · Physical · DVD
Netherlands
September 27, 1990 · Theatrical
May 2, 2003 · TV · Yorin
October 19, 2007 · Physical · DVD
November 28, 2007 · Physical · Blu ray
Norway
November 8, 1990 · Theatrical
Philippines
September 25, 1990 · Theatrical
Poland
July 10, 1991 · Theatrical
Portugal
October 4, 1990 · Theatrical
Romania
July 9, 1993 · Theatrical
South Korea
December 1, 1990 · Theatrical
Spain
September 14, 1990 · Theatrical
Sweden
September 28, 1990 · Theatrical
Taiwan
July 19, 1990 · Theatrical
Türkiye
February 22, 1991 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
August 17, 1990 · Theatrical
February 13, 2013 · Theatrical · Re-release
XC
February 13, 1992 · Theatrical
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