Ruthless People (1986)

6.6/10 • 94 min • Comedy

Overview

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

Bette Midler

Judge Reinhold

Helen Slater

Anita Morris

Carol Dodsworth

Bill Pullman

Earl James Mott

William G. Schilling

Chief Henry Benton

Art Evans

J.E. Freeman

Gary Riley

Heavy Metal Kid

Frank Sivero

Phyllis Applegate

Jeannine Bisignano

Hooker in Car

Jim Doughan

Cop at Sam's House

Christopher J. Keene

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