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Ruthless People(1986)
Status: Released
Date: 1986-06-26
66%
413 Votes
Time: 1h 33m
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
Budget: $11,000,000.00
Revenue: $71,600,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Silver Screen Partners II
Movie: Ruthless People
Top 10 Billed Cast
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
Lt. Bender
Clarence Felder
Lt. Walters
J.E. Freeman
Bedroom Killer
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