Die Hard (1988) [reclassified 2013]

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Synopsis

Action. Based on the novel ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ by Roderick Thorp. A New York City detective (Bruce Willis) battles terrorists in a high rise office building.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, sometimes in an aggressive context; frequent use of profanity, cursing and vulgar expressions
• Infrequent use of crude sexual references and ethno-cultural slurs
• Frequent guns, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence – blood and some detail
• Infrequent breast nudity in a non-sexual context

Thematic elements

• The qualities of heroism
• The bonds of family
• The question of professional ethics

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for frequent coarse language and brutal genre violence

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