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King's Ransom
New Line Cinema
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor and language
Starring
Anthony Anderson,
Donald Faison,
Regina Hall,
Jay Mohr,
Loretta Devine,
Kellita Smith,
Nicole Ari Parker,
and
Leila Arcieri
When a wealthy businessman is faced with a divorce, he plots his own kidnapping.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Crime
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Wayne Conley
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jeff Byrd
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 26, 2005
Theatrical: April 22, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
97 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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33
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
Generic hip-hop soundtrack? Check. Aerial stock footage of milieu? Check. Hardy-har homophobia and misogyny? Check. Emasculated sub-Gump white dude played by Jay Mohr? Double check.

30
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Devotes its first two acts to establishing the comic monstrousness of all its characters.

30
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Remarkably unfunny.

30
Variety
Justin Chang
An innocuous abduction of viewers' time, if nothing else, King's Ransom is an appealingly cast but terminally bland farce.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Piles cliched character upon cliched character, and then doesn't give any of them very much to do.

20
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
A desperately strained comedy.

20
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Lifeless and laughless.

20
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Crass, trashy and none-too-funny comedy.

20
Village Voice
Peter L'Official
Charlie Murphy's hilarious gay gangsta, relegated to the filmic down low, provides a modicum of depth in an otherwise supremely shallow effort.

12
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Dumber than the worst UPN sitcom.

0
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
None of this is remotely funny.

0
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Incoherent mess of a film.

0
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The comic equivalent of a lump of coal.


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