Ruthless People

Ruthless People

6.6IMDb Score
Released:1986-06-26
Genre:Comedy
Duration:93 min
Director:David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Actors:Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Anita Morris
Production:Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners II

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.

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