]The film""s frightening, daring, and far-fetched plot, from a screenplay written by co-producer and Broadway playwright George Axelrod (famous for the Broadway playWill Success Spoil Rock Hunter?andLord Love a Duck (1966)), was based on Richard Condon""s 1959 novel of the same name.With no Academy Award nominations.With a production budget of $78 million, and box-office gross receipts of $93 million (domestic) and $209 million (worldwide).He delicately removed each of the gloves, lit his cigarette butt, and then decided to not pocket his gloves, but toss them into a trash can.They again talked about Stryker""s mutant son Jason, who had left Xavier""s school after one year, and then blamed his parents for his condition.Unfortuitously, the film opened only a month after the Oklahoma City bombing, resembling real-life.Universally, this was considered the weakest of the series.Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)d.Renny Harlin, 124 minutesFilm Plot SummaryThe film opened on Christmas Eve, with average guy and LAPD cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) at the snowed-in Washington Dulles Int""l Airport curb, where his car was ticketed and being towed for illegal parking.