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Die Hard
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Since the beliefs that parents want to instill in their children can vary greatly, we ask that instead of adding your personal opinions about what is right or wrong in a film, that you instead use this feature to help parents make informed viewing decisions by describing the facts of relevant scenes in the title for each one of the different categories: Sex and Nudity, Violence and Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Frightening/Intense Scenes.
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Sex & Nudity

A woman breasts are shown quickly before getting chucked out. These are seen quickly and lasts about 3 seconds.

When John McClane looks down a hall in the hotel a pornographic image is shown briefly on the paper -- nothing too bad though.

Violence & Gore

The main theme of this movie is that a gang of terrorists are attempting to take over a large corporate building, however one of the employee's husband is an off-duty New York Cop and is attempting to kill the terrorists one-by-one to save the hostages.

A man is shot in the head causeing blood to splatter on the walls. Although the bloody body is not seen. The blood on the windows is very bloody.

(Spolier) John kills his first terroirtis and writes in his own blood (I got a machiene gun ho ho ho

A man is thrown out the window with a bullet throw his stomach. We see him fall, we don't see hit the ground but we do here him hit the ground.

A lot of shooting and violence overall, often with graphic results.

Profanity

58 uses of the F word, and other uses of words such as damn, sh*t, two uses of d*ckhead, and other mild profanities,

Some mild sexual jokes and references.

People drink alcohol at a party, and there are one or two who are clearly drunk.

Hans and John both smoke cigarettes.

It is implied that Ellis snorts cocaine twice during the film.

Hans Gruber is an evil terrorist that attempts to seize control of the Nakatomi Building by any means possible. This includes killing anyone and everyone that stands in his way.

13 people are killed in the film, with one nearly mortally wounded.

Some of the violence becomes a bit intense, but the most graphic shot is the first killing, in which a hostage is shot in the head (off screen) and some blood splatters on a pane of glass (on screen).

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Certification:

USA:R (certificate #29160) / Peru:14 / Argentina:16 / Canada:13+ (Quebec) / Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) (re-rating) (2001) / Canada:AA (Ontario) (re-rating) (2001) / Canada:R (Manitoba) / Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) (original rating) / Iceland:16 / West Germany:16 (cut) (video premiere) / Finland:K-16 (1989) (cut) / Finland:K-15 (DVD version) / Finland:K-18 (1988) (uncut) / Malaysia:18SG / Brazil:14 / Philippines:R-18 / UK:15 (2007) / UK:18 (1988) / West Germany:18 (original rating) / India:A / South Africa:16LV / Italy:VM14 / New Zealand:M / Australia:M / Ireland:18 / Netherlands:16 / Norway:15 / Norway:18 (original rating) / Singapore:M18 / South Korea:18 / Sweden:15 / France:U / Hong Kong:IIB / Japan:PG-12 / Spain:18


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