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Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exchange for her life. Fully intending to ignore every one of the kidnappers' demands in the hopes that they do him a favor and murder her for him, the two confused kidnappers have to figure out how they're going get their money, and what they're going to do with the overbearing Barbara.

This pitch-black comedy subverts the typical kidnapping trope by featuring a husband who is actively rooting for his wife's demise. Watching a criminal duo struggle to execute a murder that the victim's spouse is practically subsidizing creates a chaotic, darkly hilarious friction.

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