Ruthless People
“Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!”
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.
Genres
Comedy
Studio
Touchstone Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Ruthless People performed
Budget
$11.0M
Worldwide Gross
$71.6M
Gross Profit
$60.6M
Return
6.5× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$10M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Sam Stone
Danny DeVito
Sam Stone
Barbara Stone
Bette Midler
Barbara Stone
Ken Kessler
Judge Reinhold
Ken Kessler
Sandy Kessler
Helen Slater
Sandy Kessler
Carol Dodsworth
Anita Morris
Carol Dodsworth
Earl James Mott
Bill Pullman
Earl James Mott
Chief Henry Benton
William G. Schilling
Chief Henry Benton
Lt. Bender
Art Evans
Lt. Bender
Lt. Walters
Clarence Felder
Lt. Walters
Bedroom Killer
J.E. Freeman
Bedroom Killer
Heavy Metal Kid
Gary Riley
Heavy Metal Kid
The Mugger
Frank Sivero
The Mugger
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