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 (1990), with Bill Murray starring and co-directing.
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Plot
Dressed as a clown, the clever troublemaker 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
Jean-Paul Belmondo as Grimm
Kim Cattrall as Lise
Guy Marchand as Georges
Jean-Pierre Marielle as Simon Labrosse
Jacques Villeret as Jeremie