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
Alan Rickman Jamie in "Truly, Madly, Deeply" (1991); numerous villains in Hollywood big-budget films, including German criminal Hans Gruber in "Die Hard" (1988), Australian Elliot Marston opposite Tom Selleck in "Quigley Down Under" (1990) and the Sheriff of Nottingham in "" (1991); and the occasional television role such as Dr. Alfred Blalock in HBO's "Something the Lord Made" (2004) and the "mad monk" Rasputin in the HBO biopic "" (1996), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award. Rickman's role as Hans Gruber in "Die Hard" earned him a spot on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains