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Ruthless People
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Ruthless People is a 1986 American comedy crime film directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker. The screenplay was written by Dale Launer, with music composed by Michel Colombier and cinematography by Jan de Bont. The cast includes Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, and Helen Slater. Produced by Touchstone Pictures and Silver Screen Partners II, the film was filmed in Santa Monica and set in Los Angeles.
The movie has a runtime of 93 to 94 minutes and was released in June and December 1986. It was distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Netflix, and Disney+ in video on demand format. The production budget was $11,000,000, resulting in revenue of $71,600,000. The film holds review scores of 7.1/10, 78/100, and 93%, with an IMDb rating of 6.9 and a TMDb vote average of 6.573.
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6.6Sam 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.
Cast
- Danny DeVito as Sam Stone
- Bette Midler as Barbara Stone
- Judge Reinhold as Ken Kessler
- Helen Slater as Sandy Kessler
- Anita Morris as Carol Dodsworth
- Bill Pullman as Earl James Mott
Themes
- businessman
- ransom
- kidnapping
- female lover
- dark comedy
- santa monica, california
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- crime film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Jerry Zucker
- Screenwriter
- Dale Launer
- Cast member
- Gary Riley
- Composer
- Michel Colombier
- Cinematographer
- Jan de Bont
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Filming location
- Santa Monica
- Duration
- 92
- FilmAffinity ID
- 793294
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1986-06-27
- title
- Ruthless People
- distributed by
- Netflix
- production code
- 0392
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- film editor
- Arthur Schmidt
- review score
- 93%
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