1. Ruthless People movie review & film summary (1986) - Roger Ebert
“Ruthless People” opens as DeVito is having lunch with his mistress, and we can see that this is a man filled with passion. In this case, the passion is hatred ...
It is so hard to play a lovable villain, and Danny DeVito does it so easily. His eyes narrow, his voice deepens, and he speaks with great earnestness and
2. Ruthless People | Rotten Tomatoes
What to Know ... It's sometimes crude and tasteless, but Ruthless People wrings acid-soaked laughs out of its dark premise and gleefully misanthropic characters.
Sam Stone (Danny DeVito) hates his wife, Barbara (Bette Midler), 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 (Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater) have to figure out how they're going get their money, and what they're going to do with the overbearing Barbara.
3. Ruthless People | Disney Wiki - Fandom
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Ruthless People is a 1986 black comedy film written by Dale Launer, directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, and starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, and Helen Slater, with Bill Pullman in a supporting role in his film debut. It 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 o
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5. Ruthless People - AFI|Catalog - American Film Institute
Various contemporary publications, including NYT on 27 Jun 1986, state the plot of Ruthless People was modeled on the 1910 short story "Ransom of Red Chief," by ...
Sam Stone, a middle-aged businessman, tells his mistress, Carol, that he married his wife Barbara for her inheritance, believing her rich father would die any minute. Barbara’s father, however, ended up living and Sam eventually made his own fortune in the fashion industry. Despite his financial success, Sam feels entitled to Barbara’s family inheritance because he has suffered through years of marriage to a woman he despises. He regrets that his strategy to knock Barbara out with chloroform and throw her off a cliff is not more violent. With great excitement, and the contrived approval of Carol, he heads home to execute his plan. In his outlandishly decorated post-modern mansion, Sam is outraged to find that Barbara is not there. Further annoyed by the presence of Barbara’s toy poodle, Sam chases the dog outside and hurls the bottle of chloroform at it. Sam then receives a phone call informing him that his wife has been kidnapped and will be killed if he deviates from the kidna
6. Ruthless People | Film & Television Wiki - Fandom
Ruthless People is a 1986 film starring Danny DeVito, Judge Reinhold, Helen ... Plot. Advertisement. Plot. Millionaire Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara ...
Ruthless People is a 1986 film starring Danny DeVito, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Bette Midler and Bill Pullman, directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, written by Dale Launer and produced by Michael Peyser. Millionaire Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara. He plans on murdering her to gain control of her $15 million family fortune and run off with his mistress Carol. He goes home to murder his wife, but he can't find her. The phone rings and an anonymous man tells him that Barbar
7. Ruthless People Reviews - Metacritic
Summary A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in ... Ruthless People contains some of the biggest laughs of 1986. By Gene Siskel ...
A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
8. Ruthless People (Film) - TV Tropes
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A modern update of O. Henry's "The Ransom of Red Chief"note Though Dale Launer, the film's writer, claimed he had based the film on the abduction of Patty Hearst, and that any similarities between the film and the short story were …
9. Ruthless People (1986) - Turner Classic Movies - TCM
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Sam Kessler is a ruthless, wealthy man and his wife Barbara is an obnoxious, spoiled woman. Ken and Sandy Kessler have been cheated by Sam and decide to kidnap Barbara and hold her for ransom to even the score. But Sam is happy to be rid his wife and refuses to pay, and when they threaten to...
10. MOVIE REVIEW | Ruthless People (1986) - Bored and Dangerous
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“I had to live with that squealing, corpulent little toad all these years. God, I hate that woman.” Danny DeVito, Bette Midler and Judge Reinhold… Three people you don’t see on the big screen all …
11. Ruthless People (1986) - DVD Movie Guide
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Reviewed by Colin Jacobson: ItÂs wonderfully wicked and witty, and it benefits from excellent performances across the board.
12. Ruthless People - John Varley
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13. Ruthless People (1986) - Scopophilia
May 22, 2018 · By Richard Winters My Rating: 4 out of 10 4-Word Review: His wife gets kidnapped ... Ruthless People (1986). Ruthless People Movie Poster (1986).
By Richard Winters My Rating: 4 out of 10 4-Word Review: His wife gets kidnapped. Sam (Danny DeVito) wants to kill his shrewish wife Barbara (Bette Midler) so he can get her inheritance, but is una…
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Ruthless People is maybe the best "idiot plot" in history. For those unfamiliar, here's the man who coined the term, Roger Ebert, explaining it in his 1968 review of the movie Wait Until Dark:
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A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation—without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
16. Ruthless People (1986) - Box Office Mojo
Ruthless People (1986). A couple cheated by a vile businessman kidnaps his wife in retaliation, not knowing that their enemy is delighted that they did. Cast ...
17. Retro Review: Ruthless People (1986)
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Ruthless People 1986 Cast: Bette Midler, Danny Devito, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Bill Pullman Genre: Black comedy U.S Box Offic...
18. Ruthless People (1986). Movie rating: 7/10 | by Matthew Puddister | Medium
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19. Ruthless People | Full Movie
Loathesome millionaire Sam Stone (Danny DeVito) is ruthless. How ruthless? When his shrill wife Barbara (Bette Midler) is nabbed by inept kidnappers.
Purchase Ruthless People on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Loathesome millionaire Sam Stone (Danny DeVito) is ruthless. How ruthless? When his shrill wife Barbara (Bette Midler) is nabbed by inept kidnappers (Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater), Sam cries tears of joy ... and refuses to pay the ransom. And when the abductors threaten to kill the abrasive heiress, Sam takes immediate action -- he celebrates!
