La Tour Montparnasse Infernale

92 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrenchBudget$9.6 millionBox office$20.6 million^[1]

La Tour Montparnasse Infernale is a 2001 French crime comedy film directed by Charles Nemes and co-written and starred by Eric Judor, Ramzy Bedia and Pierre-François Martin-Laval. When it came out in cinemas in Canada, it was translated into Don't Die Too Hard in reference to Die Hard. The movie is a box office success, grossing 20.6 million for a budget of 9.6 million. A prequel, La Tour 2 contrôle infernale was released in 2016.

Plot

Éric and Ramzy are working as window washers at the Montparnasse skyscraper in Paris. Eric thinks that he has a date with beautiful Marie-Joëlle (real name is Stéphanie Lanceval), They stay at work late, but a gang of terrorists seize the tower and take its late-night occupants (including Marie-Joëlle) hostage. Knowing that only they can save the day, Éric and Ramzy swing into action.

Cast

• Eric Judor and Ramzy Bedia as the windows washers
• Marina Foïs as Stéphanie Lanceval (Marie-Joëlle)
• Serge Riaboukine as Michel Vignault a.k.a. Machin
• Michel Puterflam as Lanceval
• Bô Gaultier de Kermoal as Ming
• Pierre Semmler as Hans
• Edgar Givry as Greg
• Georges Trillat as Peter
• Bruce Johnson as Chris
• Laurence Pollet-Villard as Sylvie
• Pierre-François Martin-Laval as Tran
• Olivier Balazuc as Fils 4 Lanceval
• Jean-Claude Dauphin as Le commissaire
• Étienne Fauduet as Séparatiste corse
• Benoît Giros as Jean-Louis
• François Goizé as Pilote hélicoptère
• Vincent Haquin as Chef GIGN
• Thibault Lacroix as Fils 1 Lanceval
• Grégory Lemoigne as Fils 3 Lanceval
• Frederic Moreau as Séparatiste basque
• Gyuri Nemes as Séparatiste Breton
• Marc Raffat as Pilote hélicoptère
• Lionel Roux as Homme du RAID
• Philippe Schwartz as Fils 5 Lanceval
• Volodia Serre as Fils 2 Lanceval
• Joey Starr as Youston
• Omar Sy as Taxi driver
• Fred Testot as Policier fumeur

References

External links

• La Tour Montparnasse Infernale at IMDb