Ruthless People (1986) | agoodmovietowatch
Ruthless People 7.0 1986 Movie Out of catalog

Ruthless People

Dir. David Zucker & Jerry Zucker · United States of America · English

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

What happens

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.

What the critics said

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"Ruthless People is a hilariously venal comedy about a kidnapped harridan whose rich husband won't pay for her return."

— Variety Staff

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