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IMDB rating: 8.10 Plot: New York cop John McClane, who has been a cop for 11 years, has just arrived in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. For the past six months, John’s wife Holly and their two kids Lucy McClane and John McClane Jr have been living in Los Angeles without John. In New York, Holly had a good job that turned into a career, and Holly was promoted to a powerful position in the Nakatomi Corporation. The promotion called for Holly to move to Los Angeles to work in the Nakatomi Plaza, a 40 story building. John stayed in New York because he didn’t think Holly would make it out in Los Angeles, and that she would come crawling back to him in New York, so John figured that there was no reason to pack his things for the move to Los Angeles. A limo driver named Argyle drives John to the Nakatomi Plaza, and John heads to the 30th floor, where a Christmas party is going on. John gets into an argument with Holly in the office of her drug-snorting co-worker Harry Ellis because Holly uses her maiden name Gennero instead of the name McClane on her nameplate in her office. Holly leaves the room to give a speech. While John is by himself in the office, John is wishing that the argument hadn’t happened. A few minutes later, a group of German terrorists led by Hans Gruber and his right hand man Karl enter the building and take everyone hostage on the 30th floor. John is able to avoid being taken hostage because Hans and his men don’t even know that John is in the building. John heads to the upper floors, which are still under construction. Hans takes Holly’s boss Joseph Yashinobo Takagi to an office, where Hans demands that Takagi give him the computer code key that will allow Hans and his men to start opening the building’s safe so they can steal the $640,000,000 in negotiable bearer bonds that are in the safe. Takagi refuses to cooperate with Hans, so Hans kills Takagi, and John witnesses it. Hans tells his technology expert Theo to start working on getting the safe opened, and Theo thinks it’ll take a couple of hours to do it. John frantically tries to find a way to alert the LAPD, realizing that the main phone lines in the building have been cut. Once the police do arrive, they prove to be incompetent under the command of arrogant deputy chief Dwayne T. Robinson, so it’s up to John to rescue the hostages. |
Actors: Willis Bruce,Rickman Alan,Godunov Alexander,Gleason Paul,White De’voreaux,Atherton William,Bochner Hart,Shigeta James,Johnson Reginald,VelJohnson Reginald,Hayden Dennis,Gilyard Jr. Clarence,Doyon Bruno,Wisniewski Andreas,Davi Robert,Action,Crime,Thriller,
Is it normal for a 14 year old to be this attached to his father?
I know this very nice african family that just moved into our neighborhood about 3 months ago from West Africa. It is just the father and the son, the boy is his only child and the mother died about 10 months ago. I have became friends with his father and made them feel welcome comfortable here and I even volunteered to drop his son off at the school every morning since since I have to head that way ever morning for me to go to work his father has to leave for work the opposite way and he doesn’t have time to do so. This morning when I went to knock on his door to pick him up so we could take off he had his backpack on and everything getting ready to walk out the door and then his dad just walked up and kissed him smack on the lips for about 4 seconds then headed out for his car. And his son just took it like it was no big.
I noticed that him and his son are very close because they are always kissing like this before they leave and start their day. And last week I just finished babysitting his son for nearly two weeks straight because his father had to fly across the country to New York regarding something that was required in his job. That day when he came over to my house to pick his son up he told me about it and said that he wanted to bring his son with him but he didn’t want him missing any school. So I said that I wouldn’t mind taking his son in and watch him for that week that he was going to be gone for, because I’ve got two other empty bedrooms, no kids and my husband and I aren’t together anymore so there’s plenty of room for his son to stay. I could tell his son really wanted to go with him too because when we were talking about it he didn’t say much. He had to leave on a Friday morning so he dropped his son off at my house at 5 in the morning because he had to be at the airport by 8. I’ve never seen a father and son so close in my life. When he dropped his son over to my house that morning we talked for about 15 minutes or so, and he told me that he didn’t want his son out of sight, he didn’t want him walking about in any stores alone, or going outside to play during the night. He is very protective of his son.
Before he left he pulled his son close to his chest, they hugged each other tight and kissed on the lips a few times. He told his son that he loved him and for him to do all of his school work. I had to help him get his son to stop hugging him because he had wrapped his arms around his fathers neck and wouldn’t let go. I literally had to hold his son down just so his father could walk out the door. He told me he will be back in a week and they he would give me money for watching him, but I refused and said I was just happy to be doing it for free as we are friends now. Then he drove on down to the airport.
Well late that afternoon when I picked his son up from school he got into my car looking upset and I could tell by his eyes all red and watery, that he had been crying at school. I asked him what was wrong, and he said that he didn’t want his father to go and that he had never had been away from his father as long as a week. I told him it he’d be fine and that we would have alot of fun, and that 7 days would go by so fast before his eyes. Well I guess I was wrong.
When I got home I cooked him something to eat, but he just kept staring into the distance as if he didn’t have an appetite. I fixed up one of the spare rooms for him and I had already had some board games out that I had planned to play with him with, but right when I finished fixing him a room up he just went straight to bed.
The next morning it was Saturday and he had asked to call his dad. He didn’t have a cellphone so I let him use the house phone. I listenend to his conversation the whole time while I was in the kitchen cooking breakfeast and all I’ve heard him do was complain and whine about how he missed him and wanted him to come back. And his father wasn’t even gone for 2 days yet!
So that day I tried to make him feel more comfortable with his father being gone, so I told him I’d take him out and around town (money wise). I can tell that his father is working hard struggling with his job and trying to make money to pay his bills because he tells me he isin’t being treated the best at work, and he is being paid very low for the type of work that he does, so him flying out of California to Newyork had to be something big for him to get a better position in his work. His father can’t afford to go out and buy him all these name brand clothes, and the boy only has 2 or 3 outfits and the rest was just his traditional African clothing and he only had a pair of sandals.
So that day I took his son out all around town and to the mall to get him some clothes and shoes to wear. He didn’t even have a coat and it was pouring down raining, his father left him his coat for him to wear but it was way too big on him. So I took him out and tried to find him one of those too. I was having fun taking him around town and picking ou
I was having fun taking him around town and picking out things for him to try on, but he just looked as if he was miserable. There was so much of nice clothes in his size too, he is very slim and he’s really tiny only about 5′1, so it wasn’t hard to find clothes in his size. But he wasn’t even interested in the clothes! I was the one going through clothing racks in the boy’s section and picking stuff out for him and he just stood there looking sad as if he didn’t want to be there. I literally bought him a new wardrobe that day.
Then when we got home that night his father called and told me that he had to stay for an extended time for about 6 more days which means he wouldn’t get back until 12 more days. He asked to speak to his son about it, and right when his son got on the phone and he told him he had to stay for 6 more days, His son started to burst into tears and he was crying so bad to the point that the snought just came pouring out of his nose. I didn’t know what else he was cr
I didn’t know what else he was crying about because he stopped talking in english and started to speak in some other african language. I took the phone back from him and his father said to tell his son that he will call him back Monday afternoon because he would be very busy all Sunday. So I told his son.
Then when Sunday came I couldn’t get the boy out of bed to eat break feast. He just layed under the blankets with his face in the pillow and said he felt ill. I have a Wii and an X box 360 but he wounldn’t even come out to play on that. He just layed there the whole day tying knots in a scarf or whatever he was doing.
When it was Monday afternoon he waited for his dad to call him back as promised, he waited all the way until it was night, and he still didn’t get a phone call. I walked in the room that night and he was under the blankets crying his heart out again. I told him that his father didn’t forget about him and that he must just be really busy again. He said that he was afrai
He said that he was afraid that something might have happened to his father and that he may be hurt. He said that his father always tucks him into bed at night, or sometimes he sleeps in the bed with his father and he cuddles him to sleep. So I tucked him in that night but I could tell that he still wished his father was there to tuck him in.
I know his father told me that he and his mother used to do alot of things togehter. She taught him how to cook, and I’ve tried his cooking before and it tastes wonderful. He cooks for his father all the time when he gets home from work.
Well the rest of the 9 days that his son was with me he was still sad and waiting imapatiently for his father to get home. The only time his son was happy was when the night that his father was supposed to arrive. He was sitting and waiting by the door the whole night, and once he heard that first knock he jumped up and opened it and he nearly jumped into his father’s arms. His father was holding the side of his
His father was holding the side of his head against his chest just hugging him and kissing him on his forehead, a few times on his lips and just rocking side to side with him still hugging him. His son started to cry again into his fathers chest as If he was releasing all the tension of being away from him.
I don’t understand because the boy was only with me for about 13 days and and I’ve been nothing but caring to him! All those clothes I bought him and video games that I tried to get him to play that he wouldn’t touch. His father had actually come home 4 days earlier just so he could be with his son and so his son could be happy again. His father thanked me he tried to pay me, but I said ”No it’s okay.” just to be nice then he just walked home with his arm around his son. I wasn’t shocked to hear when I asked his son how he felt when his father was back and he told me he felt better because he had slept in his fathers bed with him that night, and fell asleep in his arms. He says t
He says that makes him feel safe.
Do you think maybe I should talk to his father about and ask him why he’s so depressed when he is away from his? I think he needs to see some kind of psyciatrist or counsiler because I don’t think it is normal for a 14 yearold to be this attached to his father with all the crying, hugging and kissing. That usually stops at age 6 it doesn’t go on when you’re 14.
Do you think I should mention something to his father?
Negro I aint reading that shit
Norm | Feb 06, 2010
I really dont think that this is as strange as you might think i mean the kissing on the lips is a it weird for 4 seconds but in all honesty thats just how some parents (or the kid) decide to kiss there parent/child. As for the crying when i was about 5 or 6 my father died this has had some major effects on my life those being i slept in my mothers bed till i was about 8 because i didn’t want to be apart from her i hated it when we had to have someone to babysit and i would try to make her stay evn if that ment clinging onto her leg screaming and crying just because i didn’t want to loose her aswell now my mother started her life after this trying as hard as she could to get by and she ended up becoming freinds with one of our neighbours who really helped my family through it now this may just mean that you are that freind to this man i mean you could start by trying to get the kid out of his bed and into his own ans trying to get the kid to start being more indipendant maybe having him stay over at a freinds or at yours for the night telling him his father will call at 8:00 to wish him goodnight and trying to get the kids confidence up i had a best freind who i felt i could always confide in and it made me feel so much better and keep doing what your doing being helpfull and kind it will all help them and it may be some time till they both get over the death of the mother but they will get over it and helping with taking the kid to school is exaactly the kind things you should do.
Janeyxx | Feb 06, 2010
This child and his father come from a place far far away, and a culture that is far different than our own. You were doing everything that you would normally do for an AMERICAN child who has been in our country all their life and is responsive to our cultural normalities. i.e. our clothes, our games, our foods, how we interact with neighbors/non-relatives, etc. etc. This child is from another world than our own, and ALL things are new to him here. And to a very large degree they are to his Dad too. The kissing etc. are also their means of coping in a foreign and still somewhat fearsome land for them. All they have and care about for now is each other. It will take them time to understand our ways. I doubt very much if the child needs to see a mental health professional just now. The symptoms you describe him having when his Dad was away are consistant with temporary depression which, given the circumstances, seems normal and natural. Remember they are not Americanized yet, and that can only come with time and gradual experiences. Be patient, we have lots to learn in terms of love from such people. You poured out a lot of love towards that boy, it will take him a bit of a while, but it will dawn on him one day how great you treated him, I think you will have a friend for life in him, patience is the key word. You seem to be a very nice neighbor and friend.
Nathanael | Feb 06, 2010
