When was the direct-to-video movie that borrows heavily from a 1988 American action film starring Bruce Willis released?
Die Hard Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Steven E. de Souza and Jeb Stuart. It follows off-duty New York City Police Department officer John McClane (Bruce Willis) as he takes on a group of highly organized criminals led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), who perform a heist in a Los Angeles skyscraper under the guise of a terrorist attack using hostages, including McClane's wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), to keep the police at bay.
Mercury Rising Mercury Rising is a 1998 American political action thriller film starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin. Directed by Harold Becker, the movie is based on Ryne Douglas Pearson's 1996 novel originally published as "Simple Simon". Willis plays Art Jeffries, an undercover FBI agent who protects a 9-year-old boy with autism who is targeted by government assassins after he cracks a top secret government code.