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Die Hard 2

Die Hard 2

Jul 3, 1990
124 min
ActionThriller
7.0/ 10
6,127 votes

Overview

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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TMDB
7.0/10
6,127 votes
IMDB
7.2/10
400,230 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
69%
Tomatometer
Metacritic
M
67/100
Metascore

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Performance & Recognition

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Box Office & Budget

Budget$70,000,000Production cost
Box Office$240,031,094Worldwide gross
Profit$170,031,094Profitable
ROI
+242.9%Return on investment
US Box Office$117,540,947Domestic earnings

Awards & Nominations

1 win & 1 nomination total

Details

Production information

"Die harder."

Status

Released

Original Language

en

Budget

$70,000,000

Revenue

$240,031,094

Production Companies

Die Hard CollectionGordon CompanySilver Pictures20th Century Fox

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