A New York City Cop Faces Overwhelming Odds When His Christmas Visit To California Is Interrupted By A Terrorist Invasion Of His Estranged Wife'S Office Building.

Bruce Willis is John McClane, a New York cop who flies to L.A. on Christmas Eve to visit his wife at a party in her company’s lavish high-rise. Plans change once a group of terrorists, led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), seize the building and take everyone hostage. McClane slips away and becomes the only chance anyone has in this beginning-to-end heart-stopping action thriller.