Ruthless People
1986
Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!
- David Zucker,Jerry Zucker,Jim Abrahams
- 1h 34m
- June 26, 1986 · United States of America
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
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 26, 1986
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Touchstone Pictures,Silver Screen Partners II
- Cast
- Danny DeVito,Bette Midler,Judge Reinhold,Helen Slater,Anita Morris,Bill Pullman,William G. Schilling,Art Evans,Clarence Felder,J.E. Freemanand 25 more
- Director
- David Zucker,Jerry Zucker,Jim Abrahams
- Writer
- Dale Launer
- Cinematography
- Jan de Bont
- Music
- Michel Colombier
- Budget
- $11,000,000
- Revenue
- $71,600,000
- IMDb
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