Movie·1986·94 min

Ruthless People

Name: Ruthless People
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1986-06-26
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Anita Morris

Ruthless People is available in the US to rent or buy on Amazon Video and 4 more apps, and is not on a subscription app right now, as of October 5, 2026.

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

6.6 / 10 · TMDB

Comedy

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.

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