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Ruthless People

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Calorie Rating: 128
Released: 1986-06-26
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Budget: 11000000
Revenue 71600000
Studios: Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners II,


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.

Director / Directors

William S. Beasley
First Assistant Director
Bruce Humphrey
Second Assistant Director



Cast

Danny DeVito
Character: Sam Stone
Bette Midler
Character: Barbara Stone
Judge Reinhold
Character: Ken Kessler

Helen Slater
Character: Sandy Kessler
Anita Morris
Character: Carol Dodsworth
Bill Pullman
Character: Earl James Mott

William G. Schilling
Character: Chief Henry Benton
Art Evans
Character: Lt. Bender
Clarence Felder
Character: Lt. Walters

J.E. Freeman
Character: Bedroom Killer
Gary Riley
Character: Heavy Metal Kid
Frank Sivero
Character: The Mugger

Phyllis Applegate
Character: Loan Officer
Jeannine Bisignano
Character: Hooker in Car
J.P. Bumstead
Character: Technician

Jon Cutler
Character: Stereo Store Customer
Susan Marie Snyder
Character: Stereo Store Customer
Jim Doughan
Character: Cop at Sam's House

Christopher J. Keene
Character: Cop at Jail
Henry Noguchi
Character: Coroner
Arnold F. Turner
Character: Cop with Killer Picture

Bob Tzudiker
Character: Sam's Attorney
Charles A. Vanegas
Character: Arresting Cop
Louise Yaffe
Character: Social Worker

Janet Rotblatt
Character: Secretary to Chief of Police
Charlotte Zucker
Character: Judge
Art Bonilla
Character: Waiter

Rick DeReyes
Character: Newscaster
Mie Hunt
Character: Newscaster
Ron Tank
Character: Newscaster

Susan Stadner
Character: Aerobic Instructor
Beth R. Johnson
Character: Aerobic Instructor
Twyla Littleton
Character: Model

Mary Elizabeth Thompson
Character: Elderly Woman
Phil Hartman
Character: Newsreader (voice) (uncredited)


Production and Crew

Rosanna Norton
Costume Designer
Jeffrey Chernov
Unit Production Manager

Donald B. Woodruff
Art Direction
Tommy Mottola
Music Supervisor
Anne D. McCulley
Set Decoration

Charles L. Campbell
Supervising Sound Editor
Louis L. Edemann
Supervising Sound Editor
Larry Carow
Sound Editor

Mike Dobie
Sound Editor
Chuck Neely
Sound Editor

Brad Wilder
Makeup Artist
Barbara Lorenz
Key Hair Stylist
Eric H. Sandberg
Costume Supervisor

Donald O. Mitchell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rick Kline
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Kevin O'Connell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Dale Launer
Screenplay
Joanna Lancaster
Executive Producer
Walter Yetnikoff
Executive Producer

Jan de Bont
Director of Photography

Sally Cruikshank
Opening Title Sequence
Richard Wagner
Executive Producer









Michel Colombier
Original Music Composer

Walter Scott
Stunt Coordinator