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Ruthless People

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

1986 · R · 1h 34m

Directed by David Zucker, Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams

6.6

TMDB audience score
470 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Danny DeVito
    Sam Stone

  • Bette Midler
    Barbara Stone

  • Judge Reinhold
    Ken Kessler

  • Helen Slater
    Sandy Kessler

  • Anita Morris
    Carol Dodsworth

  • Bill Pullman
    Earl James Mott

  • William G. Schilling
    Chief Henry Benton

  • Art Evans
    Lt. Bender

  • Clarence Felder
    Lt. Walters

  • J.E. Freeman
    Bedroom Killer

  • Gary Riley
    Heavy Metal Kid

  • Frank Sivero
    The Mugger

  • Phyllis Applegate
    Loan Officer

  • Jeannine Bisignano
    Hooker in Car

  • J.P. Bumstead
    Technician

  • Jon Cutler
    Stereo Store Customer

  • Susan Marie Snyder
    Stereo Store Customer

  • Jim Doughan
    Cop at Sam's House