‘Yippee ki yay’: 30th anniversary screening of ‘Die Hard’ in San Francisco
In the in the immortal words of John McClane, “Welcome to the party, pal.” As in the 30th anniversary parties of one of the greatest and most inventive action films of all time.
“Die Hard” elevated Bruce Willis from TV star to movie star in this explosive, suspenseful film that three decades later stands as tall on the action-movie landscape as Nakatomi Plaza, the Los Angeles skyscraper that becomes the violent playground of New York cop McClane as he foils a terrorist takeover led by the late, great Alan Rickman.
In the process, he saves his marriage with Bonnie Bedelia, one of the hostages. They don’t teach that in couples therapy.