Ruthless People (1986)
Movie
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.
Directed By : Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Genres : Comedy
Status : Released
Released : Jun 26, 1986
Tagline : Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!
Length : 93 minutes
Cast
- Danny DeVito
- Bette Midler
- Judge Reinhold
- Helen Slater
- Anita Morris
- Bill Pullman
- William G. Schilling
- Art Evans
- Clarence Felder
- J.E. Freeman
- Gary Riley
- Frank Sivero
- Phyllis Applegate
- Jeannine Bisignano
- J.P. Bumstead
- Jon Cutler
- Susan Marie Snyder
- Jim Doughan
- Christopher J. Keene
- Henry Noguchi
- Arnold F. Turner
- Bob Tzudiker
- Charles A. Vanegas
- Louise Yaffe
- Janet Rotblatt
- Charlotte Zucker
- Art Bonilla
- Rick DeReyes
- Mie Hunt
- Ron Tank
- Susan Stadner
- Beth R. Johnson
- Twyla Littleton
- Mary Elizabeth Thompson
- Phil Hartman
Crew
- Casting : Ellen Chenoweth
- Costume Designer : Rosanna Norton
- Unit Production Manager : Jeffrey Chernov
- First Assistant Director : William S. Beasley
- Second Assistant Director : Bruce Humphrey
- Art Direction : Donald B. Woodruff
- Music Supervisor : Tommy Mottola
- Set Decoration : Anne D. McCulley
- Supervising Sound Editor : Charles L. Campbell
- Supervising Sound Editor : Louis L. Edemann
- Sound Editor : Larry Carow
- Sound Editor : Samuel C. Crutcher
- Sound Editor : Mike Dobie
- Sound Editor : Chuck Neely
- Makeup Artist : Brad Wilder
- Key Hair Stylist : Barbara Lorenz
- Costume Supervisor : Eric H. Sandberg
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer : Donald O. Mitchell
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer : Rick Kline
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer : Kevin O'Connell
- Director : Jim Abrahams
- Director : David Zucker
- Director : Jerry Zucker
- Screenplay : Dale Launer
- Executive Producer : Joanna Lancaster
- Executive Producer : Walter Yetnikoff
- Director of Photography : Jan de Bont
- Editor : Gib Jaffe
- Producer : Michael Peyser
- Opening Title Sequence : Sally Cruikshank
- Executive Producer : Richard Wagner
- Stunts : Pat Romano
- Songs : Billy Joel
- Songs : Mick Jagger
- Stunts : Ralph Garrett
- Stunts : Gene Hartline
- Stunts : Diamond Farnsworth
- Stunts : Vince Deadrick Sr.
- Stunts : Richard Drown
- Stunts : Brad Bovee
- Stunts : Ray Bickel
- Stunts : Danny Costa
- Stunts : Phil Adams
- Stunts : Wayne King Sr.
- Stunts : Sasha Jenson
- Stunts : Carol Neilson Smrz
- Stunts : Max Kleven
- Stunts : Kathleen O'Haco
- Stunts : Tracy Keehn-Dashnaw
- Stunts : Ben Scott
- Stunts : John-Clay Scott
- Stunts : Carol Rees
- Stunts : Ted White
- Stunts : Brian Smrz
- Stunts : Mike Watson
- Stunts : Loren Janes
- Stunts : Faith Minton
- Editor : Arthur Schmidt
- Original Music Composer : Michel Colombier
- Stunt Coordinator : Walter Scott
- Stunts : Charles Croughwell
- Stunts : Gregory J. Barnett
- Animation Supervisor : Sally Cruikshank