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Ruthless People

19861h 34mComedy
directed by Jim Abrahamsdirected by David Zuckerdirected by Jerry Zucker

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

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6.6 / 10
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6.9 / 10
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78 / 100
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93%

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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.

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