Ruthless People

Jun 26, 1986

1h 33m

★ 6.6

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Touchstone Pictures

Silver Screen Partners II

Ruthless People Trailers

Cast

Sam Stone

Danny DeVito

Barbara Stone

Bette Midler

Ken Kessler

Judge Reinhold

Sandy Kessler

Helen Slater

Carol Dodsworth

Anita Morris

Earl James Mott

Bill Pullman

Chief Henry Benton

William G. Schilling

Lt. Bender

Art Evans

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Clarence Felder

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