What I noticed afterwards after the film was how unseen Donner's hand was in telling the story, because it's told very straight forward, but very assuredly. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore for approximately thirteen years and they share custody to their three daughters.I mainly saw this film due to Richard Donner directing it.
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The high tech Live Free or Die Hard (2007) aka "Die Hard 4.0".
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However, Willis bounced back into the spotlight in the criticallyĪpplauded Frank Miller graphic novel turned movie Sin City (2005), the voice of "RJ" the scheming raccoon in the animated hit Over the Hedge (2006) and "Die Hard" fans rejoiced to see "John McClane" return to the big screen in Gripping Unbreakable (2000), and in two military dramas, Hart's War (2002)Īnd Tears of the Sun (2003) that both failed to really fire with movie audiences or critics alike. Willis next starred in the gangster comedy The Whole Nine Yards (2000), Night Shyamalan directed spine-tingling epic The Sixth Sense (1999). Terry Gilliam directed apocalyptic thriller 12 Monkeys (1995), the Luc Besson directed sci-fi opus The Fifth Element (1997) and the M. The Quentin Tarantino directed mega-hit Pulp Fiction (1994), the He appeared in the oddly appealing North (1994), as a cagey prizefighter in During the 1990s, Willis also appeared in several independent and low budget productions that won him new fans and praise from the critics for his intriguing performances working with some very diverse film directors. The Last Boy Scout (1991), the darkly humored Death Becomes Her (1992) and the mediocre police thriller Striking Distance (1993). The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) and Hudson Hawk (1991) were both large scale financial disasters that were savaged by the critics, and both are arguably best left off the CVs of all the actors involved, however Willis was still popular with movie audiences and selling plenty of theatre tickets with the hyper-violent Over the next decade, Willis starred in some very successful films, some very offbeat films and some unfortunate box office flops. Of "Mikey" the baby in the very popular family comedies Look Who's Talking (1989), and its sequel Look Who's Talking Too (1990) also starring John Travolta and Willis found time out from all the action mayhem to provide the voice Jackson as a cynical Harlem shop owner unwittingly thrust into assisting McClane during a terrorist bombing campaign on a sweltering day in New York. Excellent box office returns demanded a further sequel Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), this time co-starring Samuel L. He reprised the role of McClane in the sequel, Die Hard 2 (1990), set at a snowbound Washington's Dulles International Airport as a group of renegade Special Forces soldiers seek to repatriate a corrupt South American general. is seen by some as a dry run for the role of hard-boiled NYC detective "John McClane" in the monster hit Die Hard (1988), in which Willis' character single-handedly battled a gang of ruthless international thieves in a Los Angeles skyscraper.
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After countless auditions, Willis contributed minor film appearances, usually uncredited, before landing the role of private eye "David Addison" alongside sultry Cybill Shepherd in the hit romantic comedy television series Moonlighting (1985). While bartending one night, he was seen by a casting director who liked his personality and needed a bartender for a small movie role. Willis picked up an interest for the dramatic arts in high school, and was allegedly "discovered" whilst working in a café in New York City and then appeared in a couple of off-Broadway productions. shortly after he was born, and he was raised in Penns Grove, New Jersey, where his mother worked at a bank and his father was a welder and factory worker. Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany, to a German mother, Marlene Kassel, and an American father, David Andrew Willis (from Carneys Point, New Jersey), who were then living on a United States military base.
Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD. Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films.
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