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Ruthless People

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

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Ruthless People — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • June 26, 1986
  • Runtime
  • 94 min
  • Genres
  • Comedy
  • Director
  • Jim Abrahams

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Ruthless People — Cast

Danny DeVito photo Danny DeVito Sam Stone Bette Midler photo Bette Midler Barbara Stone Judge Reinhold photo Judge Reinhold Ken Kessler Helen Slater photo Helen Slater Sandy Kessler Anita Morris photo Anita Morris Carol Dodsworth Bill Pullman photo Bill Pullman Earl James Mott William G. Schilling photo William G. Schilling Chief Henry Benton Art Evans photo Art Evans Lt. Bender

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