Release Date
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Original Release
June 26, 1986
1h 34m
Ruthless People (1986)
⭐ 6.694 min
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.
Director
Jim Abrahams
Department: Writing
⭐Popularity: 1.2
Cast
Danny DeVito
Sam Stone
⭐4.0
Bette Midler
Barbara Stone
⭐2.4
Judge Reinhold
Ken Kessler
⭐2.0
Helen Slater
Sandy Kessler
⭐2.7
Anita Morris
Carol Dodsworth
⭐1.2
Bill Pullman
Earl James Mott
⭐3.8
William G. Schilling
Chief Henry Benton
⭐0.8
Art Evans
Lt. Bender
⭐1.4
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Clarence Felder
Lt. Walters
⭐1.1
J.E. Freeman
Bedroom Killer
⭐1.3
Genres
Comedy
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