
Feature film — 1986
Ruthless People (1986)
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.
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Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners II
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Director: Jim Abrahams
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Cast & crew

Danny DeVito
Sam Stone

Bette Midler
Barbara Stone

Judge Reinhold
Ken Kessler

Helen Slater
Sandy Kessler

Anita Morris
Carol Dodsworth

Bill Pullman
Earl James Mott

William G. Schilling
Chief Henry Benton

Art Evans
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Clarence Felder
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