Held Up

Held Up - Warning hostage! ( Held Up ) is an American comedy film directed by Steve Rash from the year 1999.

Action

Michael and his girlfriend Rae live in Chicago. You drive in the new car Michaels through the southwestern United States. The car breaks down. Rae accidentally discovers that he did not cost $ 5,000 - as previously thought - but about 15,000 U.S. dollars. Michael spent the savings that were intended for the purchase of a common house.

Rae Michael leaves; a group of cowboys takes her to the airport in Las Vegas. Michael closes his car key in the car. The requested help boy opens the car, but he steals it then.

Michael studied a way to attain Rae before departing. However, he gets into a store in a robbery. Michael is just like the other buyers and sellers a hostage.

The police arrive and surrounded the store. A female hostage can notify her husband that she could only come home late. She is surprised that her husband arrives much later than the policeman who informed him. It comes to a marriage dispute with voice tube in which one of the robbers stood up on the side of possibly betrayed wife.

A SWAT unit comes secretly to the store, but she is discovered and overwhelmed. The robbers get a bus to which they can ski and Michael.

Michael reached the airport late, but Rae is waiting there for him. They fly together back to Chicago. The aircraft is being kidnapped by the robbers, who first met Michael at the store. You call out his name.

Reviews

Kevin Thomas wrote in the Los Angeles Times of 12 May 2000, the filmmakers have not done anything " too bad ", but the film remains on the " half-way ". Jamie Foxx was funny and you could like him. Thomas also praised the supporting cast.

Background

The film was shot in Arizona, Nebraska, and Saskatchewan in Las Vegas. Its production costs amounted to an estimated 8 million U.S. dollars. The film played in theaters in the USA about a 4.69 million U.S. dollars.

1999 in film Screenplay Neal H. Moritz Film score Robert Folk Metacritic
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