Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
88%RT Audience Score: 86%
Awards & Nominations: 3 wins & 16 nominations
Production Company(ies)
Columbia Pictures, Pascal Pictures, Marvel Studios,
Distributor
NA
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Wide)
Filming Location(s)
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, language and a brief sexual situation
Year of Release
2007
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital EXDTSS DDS
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Aspect ratio:2.35 : 1
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Runtime:NA
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Language(s):English, Italian, French
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Streaming): Jul 15, 2008
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
Chop Shop, drama, Ramin Bahrani, Jeb Brody, Bahareh Azimi, Alejandro Polanco, Isamar Gonzales, Ahmad Razvi, Carlos Ayala, Laura Patalano, Nick Jasprizza, neorealist, New York City, low-budget, auto-body repairman, siblings, underbelly, Queens, criminal enterprises, Third World America, verite style, hand-held cameras, natural dialogue, docu-feel, gritty, resourceful, low-level, idle dreams, hope, heartfelt, excellent performances, box office, gross USA, $123.7K, MPAA rating, reviewed by David Fear, Ben Kenigsberg, Noel Murray, Andrew O’Hehir, Michael Phillips, Steven Winn, Piers Marchant, Matt Brunson, Norman Wilner, Douglas Davidson, David Walsh, Mattie Lucas, directed by Ramin Bahrani, produced by Jeb Brody, written by Bahareh Azimi and Ramin Bahrani, drama genre, 1h 24m runtime
Worldwide gross: $388,156,011
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $556,059,842
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 255
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 60,639,023
US/Canada gross: $134,529,403
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $192,722,504
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 370
US/Canada opening weekend: $33,369,559
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $47,804,159
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 247
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $110,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $157,582,469
Production budget ranking: 202
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $84,858,160
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $313,619,213
ROI to date (est.): 129%
ROI ranking: 826
Isamar Gonzales – Isamar
Ahmad Razvi – Ahmad
Carlos Ayala – Carlos the Pigeon Worker
Laura Patalano – Laura
Nick Jasprizza – The “John”
Director(s)
Ramin Bahrani
Writer(s)
Bahareh Azimi, Ramin Bahrani
Producer(s)
Jeb Brody
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
3 wins & 16 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (59) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (57) | Rotten (2)
November 18, 2011 | Rating: 4/5
David Fear
Time Out
TOP CRITIC
November 17, 2011 | Rating: 4/5
Ben Kenigsberg
Time Out
TOP CRITIC
All these low-level criminal enterprises and idle dreams aren’t happening in Mexico City or Kandahar; they’re just outside Queens.
October 18, 2008 | Rating: B+
Noel Murray
AV Club
TOP CRITIC
It’s a near-masterwork of low-budget precision and improvisation, constructed and rehearsed over many months in collaboration with the actors and the entire Willets Point community.
July 9, 2008
Andrew O’Hehir
Salon.com
TOP CRITIC
It’s a sharp mixture of neorealist grit and lyricism.
July 9, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/4
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
TOP CRITIC
In this clear-eyed, quietly absorbing film, director Ramin Bahrani opens up a wedge of Third World America that operates, all but invisibly, in plain sight.
June 27, 2008 | Rating: 3/4
Steven Winn
San Francisco Chronicle
TOP CRITIC
Bahrani shoots the film in classic verite style, all hand-held cameras, and natural dialogue, capturing a docu-feel for a story as gritty and resourceful as its young protagonist.
June 1, 2021
Piers Marchant
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Its protagonist hopes to avoid leading a life of quiet desperation.
March 12, 2021 | Rating: 3/4
Matt Brunson
Film Frenzy
Ramin Bahrani’s low-budget studies of people on the margins of American society.
February 27, 2021
Norman Wilner
NOW Toronto
That’s what’s fantastic about Chop Shop, and even Man Push Cart, Bahrani doesn’t look down. He captures the stories with sincerity, bestowing a kind of grace on his characters.
February 23, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
Douglas Davidson
Elements of Madness
In his Chop Shop, co-written with Bahareh Azimi, director Ramin Bahrani has chosen to treat a world and individuals that are invisible to the people who “count” in New York City.
February 14, 2021
David Walsh
World Socialist Web Site
It never feels artificial or created, it feels raw, earthy and urgently immediate.
July 6, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4
Mattie Lucas
From the Front Row…
Plot
When someone hacks into the computers at the FBI’s Cyber Crime Division; the Director decides to round up all the hackers who could have done this. When he’s told that because it’s the 4th of July most of their agents are not around so they might have trouble getting people to get the hackers. So he instructs them to get local PD’S to take care of it. And one of the cops they ask is John McClane who is tasked with bringing a hacker named Farrell to the FBI. But as soon as he gets there someone starts shooting at them. McClane manages to get them out but they’re still being pursued. And it’s just when McClane arrives in Washington that the whole system breaks down and chaos ensues.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
The film features Alejandro Polanco in the lead role as Ale, a young man working as an auto-body repairman to provide for his younger sister.
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