Die Hard with a Vengeance (Film)

Die Hard with a Vengeance
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John McTiernan
Produced by	John McTiernan Michael Tadross
Screenplay by	Jonathan Hensleigh
Based on	Simon Says by Jonathan Hensleigh Characters by Roderick Thorp}}
Starring	Bruce Willis Jeremy Irons Samuel L. Jackson Graham Greene Colleen Camp Larry Bryggman Sam Phillips
Music by	Michael Kamen
Cinematography	Peter Menzies Jr.
Edited by	John Wright
Production company	Cinergi Pictures
Distributed by	20th Century Fox (USA, Canada, and Japan) Buena Vista International (International)
Release date	May 19, 1995
Running time	128 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$90 million
Box office	$366.1 million

Die Hard with a Vengeance is a 1995 American action film and the third in the Die Hard film series. It was co-produced and directed by John McTiernan (who directed Die Hard), written by Jonathan Hensleigh, and stars Bruce Willis as New York City Police Department Lieutenant John McClane, Samuel L. Jackson as McClane's reluctant partner Zeus Carver, and Jeremy Irons as Simon Gruber. It was released on May 19, 1995, five years after Die Hard 2, becoming the highest-grossing film at the worldwide box-office that year, but received mixed reviews. It was followed by Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day to Die Hard in 2007 and 2013, respectively.

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