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Ruthless People

Name: Ruthless People
Director: Jim Abrahams
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1986-06-26
Cast: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Anita Morris

Comedy

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

Danny DeVitoBette MidlerJudge ReinholdHelen SlaterAnita MorrisBill PullmanWilliam G. SchillingArt EvansClarence FelderJ.E. FreemanGary RileyFrank Sivero

Director

Jim Abrahams

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