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 Éric 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
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