2005 · comedy · crime
King's Ransom
Directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd1h 35m2005
Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other people interested in his wealth as well.
Our read: King's Ransom (2005) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · crime entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- cold
- funny
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