Ruthless People
1986/06/26 (US) | Comedy
Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!
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.
Jim Abrahams
Director
David Zucker
Director
Jerry Zucker
Director
Dale Launer
Screenplay
Lead 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
Recommendations
Budget
$ 11,000,000
Revenue
$ 71,600,000
Status
Released
Production Company
- Touchstone Pictures
- Silver Screen Partners II
Crews
Bruce Humphrey
Second Assistant Director
Charles L. Campbell
Supervising Sound Editor
Brad Wilder
Makeup Artist
Ellen Chenoweth
Casting
Kevin O'Connell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Samuel C. Crutcher
Sound Editor
Anne D. McCulley
Set Decoration
Rosanna Norton
Costume Designer