
Ruthless People

Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!
- 1986
- Rated R
- 1h 34m
- Comedy
Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Box office
Grossed $71.6M worldwide, about 6.5 times its $11M budget
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Filming locations
Filmed in Santa Monica
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Setting
Set in Los Angeles
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Music
Music by Michel Colombier
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Jan de Bont
Details
- Directors
- Writer
- Dale LaunerScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 26, 1986
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $11M
- Revenue
- $71.6M
- Countries
- United States of America
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