Ruthless People (1986)

06/26/1986 1h 33m

Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!

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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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Cast Ages at Release

Danny DeVito

as Sam Stone

Born 11/16/1944, age

Bette Midler

as Barbara Stone

Born 12/01/1945, age

Judge Reinhold

as Ken Kessler

Born 05/21/1957, age

Helen Slater

as Sandy Kessler

Born 12/15/1963, age

Anita Morris

as Carol Dodsworth

Born 03/14/1943

Died 03/02/1994, age

Bill Pullman

as Earl James Mott

Born 12/17/1953, age

Art Evans

as Lt. Bender

Born 03/27/1942, age

Clarence Felder

as Lt. Walters

Born 09/02/1938, age

J.E. Freeman

as Bedroom Killer

Born 02/02/1946

Died 08/09/2014, age

Gary Riley

as Heavy Metal Kid

Born 11/19/1967, age

Frank Sivero

as The Mugger

Born 01/06/1952, age

Phil Hartman

as Newsreader (voice) (uncredited)

Born 09/24/1948

Died 05/28/1998, age