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Ruthless People
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.
1986 · Directed by Jim Abrahams · 94 min · Comedy · 10 frames
Tagline
Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!
Crew
- Screenplay: Dale Launer
- Cinematography: Jan de Bont
- Edited by: Gib Jaffe, Arthur Schmidt
- Music: Michel Colombier
- Produced by: Michael Peyser
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
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners II
- Budget: $11,000,000
- Box office: $71,600,000
- Themes: businessman, ransom, kidnapping, female lover, dark comedy, santa monica, california
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