Plot
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.
Cast
Bruce Willis
John McClane
Bonnie Bedelia
Holly McClane
William Sadler
Stuart
John Amos
Major Grant
Franco Nero
General Ramon Esperanza
William Atherton
Richard Thornberg
Dennis Franz
Capt. Carmine Lorenzo
Art Evans
Leslie Barnes
Fred Thompson
Trudeau
Tom Bower
Marvin
Sheila McCarthy
Samantha 'Sam' Coleman
Don Harvey
Garber
Crew
Renny Harlin
Director
Joel Silver
Producer
Doug Richardson
Screenplay
Steven E. de Souza
Screenplay
Michael Kamen
Original Music Composer
Lawrence Gordon
Producer
Charles Gordon
Producer
Oliver Wood
Director of Photography
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