From the ACLU, this is at Liberty.

I'm Molly Kaplan, your host.

This week, we're revisiting one of our year-end favorites,

a conversation about ACLU staffers' favorite holiday movies.

So grab some popcorn and enjoy the show.

We'll see you again in 2021, turning it over to one of our former hosts, Lee Rowland.

This episode is literally a dramatic departure.

We've asked ACLU staff to give you their movie recommendations for the holiday season.

There were no rules, so the movies range from classics to new releases, and they come from every genre.

And we'll start, as perhaps all good lists should, with an epic and impassioned ode to die hard.

My name is Eunice Roe, and I've done a variety of things in the voting rights space and the LGBT space.

I now work in our development department, so that's me.

What movie would you recommend that people check out?

Die Hard.

It is an amazing movie, and one of my favorite movies, and I have like the zeal of the newly converted

because I didn't really actually watch all of it until like five years ago and you know I'm a pop

culture obsessive kind of a human being but like I immigrate in the late 80s so like I don't have time

for die hard man I was trying to learn English so I'm really glad I'm caught up because there are so many reasons why Die Hard is so great, right? It's like the action sequences and so many great one-liners. And let's talk about Hans Gruber, Alan Rickman, the God. God, he's amazing. He is smart. He's sophisticated. He's a classics major, I think, like just like you.

And one of my favorite things about Die Hard are the details.

And one of the best details ever is when Hans Gruber enters the holiday party at the Nakatomi Corporation.

And he's tried to find the head of the office whose name is Joe Takagi.

So here's Hans, weaving his way through the crowd.

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