King's Ransom
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 26, 2005
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jay Mohr & Anthony Anderson | |
Performer: | Regina Hall, Loretta Devine, Kellita Smith, Nicole Ari Parker, Donald Faison, Leila Arcieri, Brooke D'Orsay & Charlie Murphy | |
Directed by | Jeff Byrd | |
Screenwriting by | Wayne Conley | |
Composition by | Marcus Miller | |
Produced by | Darryl Taja | |
Director of Photography: | Robert McLachlan | |
Executive Production by | Mike Drake |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: D+ --
Basically an improv scene sprawling to feature length.
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Entertainment Weekly
The script, by TV writer Wayne Conley, shares some elements with the old Danny DeVito comedy Ruthless People, but humor isn't one of them.
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Chicago Reader
Little in this film suggests 'director' Jeff Byrd and writer Wayne Conley possess any facility -- or familiarity -- with irony or any other comedic device.
Village Voice
Rating: 1.5/5 --
The thing looks like it was written in a week, directed in two, and forgotten about by all involved in less than three.
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DVDTalk.com
Rating: 1/5 --
King's Ransom deserves to be bashed, burned, and have its ashes scattered over Hollywood
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 2/5 --
Anthony Anderson shows he can star in a movie without a kangaroo in this kidnapping plan gone crazy.
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International Press Academy
The scenarios are halfway convincing and at times even passably clever; they are never, however, especially funny.
Variety
Product Description:
Anthony Anderson sheds his usual sidekick status, heading up the ensemble cast of this farcical romp as Malcolm King, a boorish, egomaniacal billionaire who owns a huge, equally tasteless marketing firm in Chicago. The cocky businessman is quickly established as the kind of character audiences love to hate, insulting underlings with glee and emitting crass vulgarities whenever he opens his mouth. His lovable secretary Miss Gladys (Loretta Devine) tries to keep him in line, while his uber-ditz of an administrative assistant, Peaches (Regina King, SCARY MOVIE), keeps him satisfied. Kellita Smith (THE BERNIE MAC SHOW) plays Malcolm's gold-digging wife, who is sleeping with her hunky, though stuttering, pool boy (Roger Cross) while seeking a hefty divorce settlement. The cast is rounded out by Angela (Nicole Ari Parker, SOUL FOOD), the temporary VP who is passed up for the job in favor of the boss's mistress, and Corey (Jay Mohr, LAST COMIC STANDING), a loser who lives in his grandmother's basement; his gang banger sister intimidates him into taking part in criminal activities. Resentments toward King abound, and soon everyone gets the same idea: kidnap Malcolm, take him for all he's worth, and teach him a valuable lesson. Even the big man himself decides to orchestrate his own kidnapping, in order to throw a wrench in the plans of his wife's lawyer. A cacophony of mistaken identities, misunderstandings, and general mayhem ensues, during which time the supporting cast is given a chance to shine; in particular, Jay Mohr deftly handles a violent run-in with a fast food worker with hilarious results. Donald Faison (SCRUBS) and Charlie Murphy (CHAPPELLE'S SHOW) also turn in stellar performances, as a randy parking attendant and a growling ex-con on the down low.
Description by Warner Home Video:
Anthony Anderson plays millionare Malcolm King who gets wrapped up in a true mess when he plans his own kidnapping to avoid paying a divorce settlement. Unfortunately for Malcolm, everything falls apart when he's not the only one in on the plot! Watch and see who finally gets away with King's Ransom!
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Product Info
- UPC: 794043826320
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