La Tour Montparnasse Infernale | |
Director: | Charles Nemes |
Producer: | Christian Fechner |
Starring: | Éric Judor Ramzy Bedia Marina Foïs Serge Riaboukine |
Music: | Jean-Claude Vannier |
Cinematography: | Étienne Fauduet |
Editing: | Dominique Galliéni |
Distributor: | UGC Fox Distribution |
Runtime: | 92 minutes |
Country: | France |
Language: | French |
Budget: | $9.6 million |
Gross: | $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.
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.