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Hold-Up is a french film of genre Comedy directed by Alexandre Arcady released in USA on 25 october 1985 with Jean-Paul Belmondo
Hold-Up (1985)
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Add to a movie listHold-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.
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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...Actors
Jean-Paul Belmondo
(Grimm)
Kim Cattrall
(Lise Lefèvre)
Guy Marchand
(Georges)
Jean-Pierre Marielle
(Simon Labrosse)
Jacques Villeret
(Jeremie Blanchet, taxi driver)
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