Ruthless People
1NomDirected by David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Synopsis
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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Details
- Released
- 26 June 1986
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Director
- David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
- Writers
- Dale Launer
- Budget
- $11,000,000
- Box office
- $71,600,000
- Countries
- United States of America
- Languages
- English
- Production
- Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners II
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Cast
Danny DeVitoNominated
Bette Midler
Judge Reinhold
Helen Slater
Anita Morris
Bill Pullman
William G. Schilling
Art Evans- CClarence Felder
J.E. Freeman