Die Hard (film series) reunite with separated wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) in Los Angeles at her company's Christmas party. Holly left to pursue her career with their two children, and uses her maiden name. At the fictional Nakatomi Plaza, East German terrorists break in and take the celebrants hostage. McClane escapes detection and hides throughout the building. He kills off the gang and learns their real plan, to steal $640 million in bearer bonds from the building's vault. In the finale, McClane shoots the terrorist leader, Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), out the window to fall thirty stories. It was released on July 15, 1988
Die hard (phrase) of the right on other matters", such as Winston Churchill who had been a "bête noire" of the original die-hards. Some of the die-hards, though not Churchill, flirted with Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists and/or supported Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement. The term is now commonly used to describe any person who will not be swayed from a belief, and was used as the title of the popular action movie series "Die Hard", all starring Bruce Willis as police officer John McClane. Die hard (phrase) The phrase die hard was first used during the Battle of Albuera (1811) in