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Ruthless People

1986 94 min R Comedy

Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!

Convenience-store owners plot to replace a rich spouse with insurance cash. When the kidnap plan backfires and the hostage proves even more unbearable than the spouse, the amateurs panic. Their bad luck just got a lot worse.

Directed by Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker · Written by Dale Launer

Starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Anita Morris, Bill Pullman

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