Movie
Ruthless People
1986 · 94 min
A gleefully mean-spirited farce where awful people get tangled in their own schemes, delivering constant laughs with a sharp, cynical edge.
- Directed by
- David Zucker, Jim Abrahams
- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold
- Tagline
- Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!
- 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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- Directed by
- David Zucker, Jim Abrahams
- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold
