Ruthless People

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Catalog Number

485 V

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Primary Distributor (If not listed, select "OTHER")

Touchstone Home Video

Year of Release

Release Year

1986

Country

United States

Format Details

VHS | SP | Slipcase

Running Time

93 mins (NTSC)

Audio / Screen / CC

N/A | N/A | N/A

UPC / MSRP

N/A | N/A

Other Distributor

Second Distributor

Buena Vista Home Video (Ent.)

Original Title / Year

Ruthless People (1986)

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Additional Information

Trailers:
Tough Guys (1986)
The Color of Money (1986)
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Barbara Stone has just been kidnapped by K-Mart, and what she doesn't know won't hurt her.
Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!

Ruthless People is a 1986 American black comedy film written by Dale Launer, directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, and starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Anita Morris, and Helen Slater, with Bill Pullman in a supporting role in his film debut.
The film is the story of a couple who kidnap their ex-boss's wife to get revenge and extort money from him. They soon realize he does not want her back and was planning to kill her himself. Meanwhile the boss's mistress plans a blackmail attempt on him which also does not go as planned.
Although it has been perceived that Ruthless People was influenced by O. Henry's story The Ransom of Red Chief, writer Dale Launer claims that it was inspired by the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst and that the similarities between the film and the earlier story were a coincidence.