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
- Second Assistant Director : Bruce Humphrey
- Supervising Sound Editor : Charles L. Campbell
- Makeup Artist : Brad Wilder
- Casting : Ellen Chenoweth
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer : Kevin O'Connell
- Sound Editor : Samuel C. Crutcher
- Set Decoration : Anne D. McCulley
- Costume Designer : Rosanna Norton
- First Assistant Director : William S. Beasley
- Art Direction : Donald B. Woodruff
- Music Supervisor : Tommy Mottola
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer : Rick Kline
- Sound Editor : Chuck Neely
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer : Donald O. Mitchell
- Costume Supervisor : Eric H. Sandberg
- Unit Production Manager : Jeffrey Chernov
- Supervising Sound Editor : Louis L. Edemann
- Sound Editor : Larry Carow
- Sound Editor : Mike Dobie
- Key Hair Stylist : Barbara Lorenz
- Director : Jim Abrahams
- Director of Photography : Jan de Bont
- Producer : Michael Peyser
- Director : David Zucker
- Director : Jerry Zucker
- Editor : Gib Jaffe
- Executive Producer : Joanna Lancaster
- Screenplay : Dale Launer
- Executive Producer : Walter Yetnikoff
- Opening Title Sequence : Sally Cruikshank
- Executive Producer : Richard Wagner
- Stunts : Pat Romano
- Songs : Billy Joel
- Songs : Mick Jagger
- Stunts : Phil Adams
- Stunts : Wayne King Sr.
- Stunts : Sasha Jenson
- Stunts : Carol Neilson Smrz
- Stunts : Max Kleven
- Stunts : Brad Bovee
- Stunts : Ralph Garrett
- Stunts : Diamond Farnsworth
- Stunts : Carol Rees
- Stunts : Brian Smrz
- Stunts : Mike Watson
- Stunts : Ray Bickel
- Stunts : Kathleen O'Haco
- Stunts : Vince Deadrick Sr.
- Stunts : Danny Costa
- Stunts : Richard Drown
- Stunts : Tracy Keehn-Dashnaw
- Stunts : Gene Hartline
- Stunts : Ben Scott
- Stunts : Ted White
- Stunts : John-Clay Scott
- 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