Ruthless People (1986)
Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!
93 min
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 27, 1986
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $11,000,000
- Box office
- $71,600,000
Trailer
Cast
- Bette Midler as Barbara Stone
- Danny DeVito as Sam Stone
- Judge Reinhold as Ken Kessler
- Helen Slater as Sandy Kessler
- Anita Morris as Carol
- Bill Pullman as Earl
- William G. Schilling as Police Commissioner
- Art Evans as Lt. Bender
- Clarence Felder as Lt. Walters
- J.E. Freeman as Bedroom Killer
Crew
- Jim Abrahams · Director
- David Zucker · Director
- Jerry Zucker · Director
- Dale Launer · Writer
- Michael Peyser · Producer
- Michel Colombier · Composer
- Jan de Bont · Cinematographer
- Gib Jaffe · Editor
- Arthur Schmidt · Editor
- Ellen Chenoweth · Casting director