One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.
Bruce Willis
as John McClane
Bonnie Bedelia
as Holly McClane
William Sadler
as Stuart
Art Evans
as Leslie Barnes
Dennis Franz
as Capt. Carmine Lorenzo
William Atherton
as Richard Thornburg
John Amos
as Major Grant
Fred Thompson
as Trudeau
Tom Bower
as Marvin
Franco Nero
as General Ramon Esperanza
Sheila McCarthy
as Samantha 'Sam' Coleman
Reginald VelJohnson
as Sgt. Al Powell
