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Director
  
Alexandre Arcady

Initial DVD release
  
June 6, 2001 (France)

Duration
  

Language
  
French

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Crime

Music director
  
Serge Franklin

Hold Up (film) movie poster
Writer
  
Alexandre Arcady
,
Jay Cronley

Release date
  
October 23, 1985

Cast
  
Jean-Paul Belmondo
(Grimm),
Guy Marchand
(Georges),
Kim Cattrall
(Lise),
Jacques Villeret

Similar movies
  
Jean-Paul Belmondo movies, Heist movies, Comedies

Hold-Up is a Franco-Canadian crime comedy from 1985, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Alexandre Arcady. The screenplay by Arcady, Daniel Saint-Hamont and Francis Veber is based on the novel Quick Change by Jay Cronley. The novel was filmed again, as Quick Change, in 1990, with Bill Murray starring and co-directing.

Contents

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Plot

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Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...

Cast

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  • Jean-Paul Belmondo as Grimm
  • Kim Cattrall as Lise
  • Guy Marchand as Georges
  • Jean-Pierre Marielle as Simon Labrosse
  • Jacques Villeret as Jeremie
  • Jean-Claude de Goros as Inspector Fox
  • Tex Konig as Lasky

    • Trivia

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  • The music that Grimm plays in Rome is a music by Nino Rota from La strada (1954), also featuring a clown as a main character.
  • 16th highest grossing movie of its year in France.
  • First time in eight years that Belmondo has not delivered a top 10 hit movie. The last time that happened was 1976.

    • Discography

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    The CD soundtrack composed by Serge Franklin is available on Music Box Records label (website). It also includes the complete score of Alexandre Arcady's Last Summer in Tangiers (1987).

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    Hold-Up (1985 film) HoldUp Soundtrack details SoundtrackCollectorcom

    References

    Hold-Up (1985 film) Wikipedia
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