Ruthless People
~Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!
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.
Genres
- Comedy
General Information
Release Date: 1986-06-26
Budget: $11000000
Revenue: $71600000
Runtime: 94 min
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