Get Hard (2015) on Netflix
Hedge fund manager James King is convicted of fraud and sentenced to San Quentin. He asks Darnell Lewis, who runs the car wash outside his office, to toughen him up for prison.
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- Rotten Tomatoes28%
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Plot summary
James King manages the Barrow Funds hedge fund and is engaged to Alissa, the daughter of his boss, Martin Barrow. At their engagement party, FBI agents arrest him for fraud and embezzlement. James refuses his lawyer's advice to plead guilty, and the judge gives him ten years in San Quentin with a thirty-day grace period to settle his affairs. Alissa leaves him. Darnell Lewis runs a car wash in the parking lot of the office James works in and has never had so much as a parking ticket. Convinced Darnell knows prison life, James offers him money to train him, and Darnell, who wants to improve his daughter's school, accepts.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Get Hard (2015)
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- Get Hard gave Will Ferrell his third-highest opening for a live-action film, behind Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ($47 million) and The Other Guys ($35.5 million), until Daddy's Home passed it that December with $38.7 million.
- During some scenes director Etan Cohen asked Kevin Hart how the jokes would be perceived by African American audiences and made changes accordingly, and Warner Bros. and Cohen ran extensive testing to make sure the humor came across well.
