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Plot Summary
Anthony Anderson plays millionaire 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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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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2%- Reviews Counted: 50
- Fresh: 1
- Rotten: 49
- Average Rating: 2.4/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: The desperately unfunny kidnapping farce King's Ransom is the cinematic equivalent of trampled chewing gum on a subway platform.
Rotten: Basically an improv scene sprawling to feature length.
Rotten: The scenarios are halfway convincing and at times even passably clever; they are never, however, especially funny.
Rotten: Somewhere in a pitch meeting someone must have piped up: 'I know. We'll have a guy named 'King' and he gets kidnapped, see? So there's a 'ransom'! King's Ransom, get it? After that, I've got nothing.'
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- $14.99
- Genre: Comedy
- Released: 2005
- © 2005 New Line Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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- King's Ransom (Music Inspired by the Motion Picture)
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