King's Ransom

Name: King's Ransom
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: April 22, 2005
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 11
Cast: Anthony Anderson, Donald Faison, Jay Mohr, Kellita Smith

2005

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New Line Cinema | Release Date: April 22, 2005 | PG-13

Starring: Anthony Anderson, Donald Faison, Jay Mohr, Kellita Smith

Summary: When a wealthy businessman is faced with a divorce, he plots his own kidnapping.

Director: Jeffrey W. Byrd

Genre(s): Comedy, Crime

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 95 min

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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. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Devotes its first two acts to establishing the comic monstrousness of all its characters. Read full review

Justin Chang

An innocuous abduction of viewers' time, if nothing else, King's Ransom is an appealingly cast but terminally bland farce. Read full review

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. Read full review

Kevin Crust

Lifeless and laughless. Read full review

Frank Scheck

A desperately strained comedy. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

The comic equivalent of a lump of coal. Read full review

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RogerS

Sep 4, 2005

Best movie ever.

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mrcritic

Sep 27, 2010

I liked this movie. It was really funny, and all of these stupid critics are just jealous that such a movie came along that some critics loved, but some hated, so they blended in with the crowd.

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