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2. What makes someone a hero? Is John McClane a hero? What about Matt and Lucy? Why or why not? What does McClane's bitter speech about what being a hero "gets you" have to say about heroism? What about his answer to Matt's question about why he does it ("Because there's no one else to do it right now")?

The Family Corner

Live Free or Die Hard is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, language, and a brief sexual situation. Gunfire is ubiquitous, and countless victims are shot dead. There is a great deal of graphic and visceral violence, and several villains are crushed, smashed, blown up or otherwise dispatched in grisly ways. A short scene of a couple petting depicts a young woman's clothed breast briefly groped (she says no, and the scene goes no further). Language includes much misuse of the name of Jesus Christ, some crude language and innuendo, and a somewhat muffled instance of McClane's trademark four-syllable obscenity.

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