Ruthless People

Ruthless People (1986)

Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!

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.

Date of release
1986-06-26
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (467)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Comedy
Director
David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams

Casting

  • Danny DeVito — Sam Stone
  • Bette Midler — Barbara Stone
  • Judge Reinhold — Ken Kessler
  • Helen Slater — Sandy Kessler
  • Anita Morris — Carol Dodsworth
  • Bill Pullman — Earl James Mott
  • William G. Schilling — Chief Henry Benton
  • Art Evans — Lt. Bender
  • Clarence Felder — Lt. Walters
  • J.E. Freeman — Bedroom Killer
  • Gary Riley — Heavy Metal Kid
  • Frank Sivero — The Mugger

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