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Ruthless People (1986) [R]

Release Date:
June 26, 1986

Original Title:
Ruthless People

Alternate Titles:
Die unglaubliche Entführung der verrückten Mrs. Stone
Por Favor Matem Minha Mulher
无情的人
杀妻计中计
残酷的人们

Genres:
Comedy

Production Companies:
Silver Screen Partners II
Touchstone Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M  DE: 16  ES: A  GB: 18  IE: 18  NL: 6  US: R 

Runtime: 93

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

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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.

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Production

Art Direction:
Donald B. Woodruff

Casting:
Ellen Chenoweth

Costume Designer:
Rosanna Norton

Costume Supervisor:
Eric H. Sandberg

Director:
David Zucker
Jerry Zucker
Jim Abrahams

Director of Photography:
Jan de Bont

Editor:
Gib Jaffe
Arthur Schmidt

Executive Producer:
Walter Yetnikoff
Joanna Lancaster
Richard Wagner

First Assistant Director:
William S. Beasley

Key Hair Stylist:
Barbara Lorenz

Makeup Artist:
Brad Wilder

Music Supervisor:
Tommy Mottola

Opening Title Sequence:
Sally Cruikshank

Original Music Composer:
Michel Colombier

Producer:
Michael Peyser

Screenplay:
Dale Launer

Second Assistant Director:
Bruce Humphrey

Set Decoration:
Anne D. McCulley

Songs:
Mick Jagger
Billy Joel

Sound Editor:
Larry Carow
Samuel C. Crutcher
Chuck Neely
Mike Dobie

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

Stunt Coordinator:
Walter Scott

Stunts:
Pat Romano
Ralph Garrett
Danny Costa
Phil Adams
Tracy Keehn-Dashnaw
Vince Deadrick Sr.
Wayne King Sr.
John-Clay Scott
Sasha Jenson
Carol Neilson Smrz
Brian Smrz
Brad Bovee
Ben Scott
Mike Watson
Ray Bickel
Max Kleven
Richard Drown
Kathleen O'Haco
Gene Hartline
Ted White
Diamond Farnsworth
Carol Rees
Loren Janes
Faith Minton
Charles Croughwell
Gregory J. Barnett

Supervising Sound Editor:
Charles L. Campbell
Louis L. Edemann

Unit Production Manager:
Jeffrey Chernov

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