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Ruthless People

Name: Ruthless People
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1986-06-26
Duration: 94 min
Cast: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Anita Morris

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

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6.6/10

TMDB rating · 464 votes

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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.

Directors: Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker
Writers: Dale Launer
Language: English
Country: United States of America
Release date: 26 June 1986
Budget: $11,000,000
Box office: $71,600,000