Every year, around the festive period, there is always one question on everyone’s lips:

Is Santa real?

Is Die Hard (1988) a Christmas movie?

The answer?

Yes – of course it is!! Die Hard is a Christmas movie.

Why are you even questioning Die Hard‘s Christmas credentials?! It’s clearly a Christmas movie on par with the likes of Home Alone (1990), Scrooged (1988) and The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992).

Oh, you want more clarification.

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OK, well here are the reasons why Die Hard is a Christmas movie:

  • Die Hard is set on Christmas Eve.
  • Lead character, John McClane – as played by Bruce Willis – attends a Christmas party.
  • Within the first two minutes, sleigh bells can be heard.
  • Within eight minutes, John McClane requests Christmas music during his chauffeur-driven ride to the Nakatomi Plaza.
  • Ten minutes into the film and McClane is humming Jingle Bells.
  • 40mins 45secs and a *cough* festive message is written on the shirt of a (dead) bad guy. The message reads: “Now I have a machine gun. Ho-Ho-Ho.”
  • Around the 1hour 11 minute mark, the character Theo recites the poem, Twas the Night Before Christmas.
  • The movie concludes with the song, Let it Snow!.
  • Christmas trees, Santas and various decorations appear throughout the movie.
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And if all that wasn’t enough, in a poll about Christmas movies, Die Hard was named the 6th best Christmas movie according to readers of the Radio Times. So, it’s fair to say a lot of people believe Die Hard is a Christmas movie.

The film is set at Christmas, features various nods to the festive season and ends with McClane reconciling with his estranged wife just in time for Christmas day.

#ChristmasMiracle

Case closed. Next!

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