Ruthless People
Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!
19861h 34mNo ratings yet
- Comedy
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.
Keywords
- kidnapping
- california
- dark comedy
- businessman
- ransom
- lover (female)
- santa monica
- female lover
- santa monica, california
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
- tt0091877