Get Hard
Get Hard
R | 27 March 2015 (USA)
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When obscenely rich hedge-fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his affairs in order. Knowing that he won't survive more than a few minutes in prison on his own, James desperately turns to Darnell-- a black businessman who's never even had a parking ticket -- for help. As Darnell puts James through the wringer, both learn that they were wrong about many things, including each other.

Reviews
Dorathen Better Late Then Never
ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
MJB784 It had some laughs in the beginning, but was mostly ugly and desperate. It was a very rushed looking movie. Basically, he gets sent to court for money fraud and has 30 days before jail, but instead of finding who's responsible for this, the movie is a series of skits associating stereotypes from Kevin Hart of who would be in jail and how to react. It was boring after a while.
juneebuggy If you're a fan of Will Ferrell or Kevin Hart and in the right mood this is very entertaining. Many LOL moments (the shank in the head) as we follow the obscenely rich Farrell as he's convicted of fraud and sentenced to time in a maximum security prison. With a month to get his affairs in order 'James' hires Hart, a man he just assumes is an ex-con to coach him on surviving his incarceration. 'Darnell' puts James through the motions and the movie comes close to crossing the line with racism humour and a lot of buggery jokes. Although I felt they were making fun of both, whatever its a very juvenile style comedy and I got some laughs.
Gavin Purtell 'Get Hard' is a straightforward comedy film - rich white guy gets sentenced to jail for fraud, asks black associate to help him prepare for prison life, hijinks ensue. Obviously, it helps when you have two great comedic leads - Ferrell as James, the meek banker, and Hart as Darnell, the car-wash operator trying to support his family. Hart's on a bit of a roll, film-wise, but this was not quite as enjoyable as 'The Wedding Ringer', but much better than 'Ride Along'.The two stars work so well together, with ultra-short Hart's hyper-energy toned down a little and ultra-tall Ferrell playing a meek, polite man-child. It's not too crass, but there is a bit of swearing as Ferrell tries to learn 'smack talk', which is hilarious. Also - too much of his butt, but that's why it's funny I guess! It's at least counter-balanced by Brie (Annie from 'Community') looking great in a corset.Plenty of laugh-out-loud moments as the 30-day countdown until his imprisonment proceeds, with some nice play on stereotypes throughout. A decent support cast - needed more Ron Funches! - not too long and just ridiculous enough to not get too stupid. Not the best comedy you'll ever see, but far from the worst.
benjamin-norris Mildly amusing comedy with Hart and Ferrell doubling up as an adequate double act. Just lacking in originality and repeating tried and tested one liners. I wish Ferrell would play some serious parts as the potential is there as opposed to Hart who seems to be a truly one trick pony who continuously serves up the same performances time after time. If nothing else to watch then it will kill two hours for you but easily forgettable and doubt it would make it onto your film of the year list. Actually prefer Steve Martins simplistic performance in Bringing Down The House which echoes themes here with the straight white guy playing an Ethnic stereotyped gangster. I'm sure there will be a sequel here, but hopefully with some depth to it.