Ruthless People
- Released on
- Runtime
- 93 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Danny DeVito
- Bette Midler
- Judge Reinhold
- Helen Slater
- Anita Morris
- Bill Pullman
- William G. Schilling
- Art Evans
- Clarence Felder
- J.E. Freeman
- Gary Riley
- Frank Sivero
- Phyllis Applegate
- Jeannine Bisignano
- J.P. Bumstead
- Jon Cutler
- Susan Marie Snyder
- Jim Doughan
- Christopher J. Keene
- Henry Noguchi
- Arnold F. Turner
- Bob Tzudiker
- Charles A. Vanegas
- Louise Yaffe
- Janet Rotblatt
- Charlotte Zucker
- Art Bonilla
- Rick DeReyes
- Mie Hunt
- Ron Tank
- Susan Stadner
- Beth R. Johnson
- Twyla Littleton
- Mary Elizabeth Thompson
- Phil Hartman
Director
- Jim Abrahams
- David Zucker
- Jerry Zucker
Producers
- Michael Peyser
Screenwriter
- Dale Launer
