Movie
Ruthless People
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1986-06-26
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners II
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Danny DeVito as Sam Stone
- Bette Midler as Barbara Stone
- Judge Reinhold as Ken Kessler
- Helen Slater as Sandy Kessler
- Anita Morris as Carol Dodsworth
- Bill Pullman as Earl James Mott
- William G. Schilling as Chief Henry Benton
- Art Evans as Lt. Bender
- Clarence Felder as Lt. Walters
- J.E. Freeman as Bedroom Killer
- Gary Riley as Heavy Metal Kid
- Frank Sivero as The Mugger
Crew
- Jim Abrahams - Director
- David Zucker - Director
- Jerry Zucker - Director
- Dale Launer - Screenplay
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