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Ruthless People
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6.6Sam 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.
Released: 1986-06-2694 minDir: Jim AbrahamsComedyBudget: $11.0MBox office: $71.6M
Cast
- Danny DeVito as Sam Stone
- Bette Midler as Barbara Stone
- Judge Reinhold as Ken Kessler
- Helen Slater as Sandy Kessler
- Anita Morris as Carol Dodsworth
- Bill Pullman as Earl James Mott
Themes
- businessman
- ransom
- kidnapping
- female lover
- dark comedy
- santa monica, california
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- crime film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Jerry Zucker
- Screenwriter
- Dale Launer
- Cast member
- Gary Riley
- Composer
- Michel Colombier
- Cinematographer
- Jan de Bont
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Filming location
- Santa Monica
- Duration
- 92
- FilmAffinity ID
- 793294
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1986-06-27
- title
- Ruthless People
- distributed by
- Netflix
- production code
- 0392
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- film editor
- Arthur Schmidt
- review score
- 93%
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