Ruthless People (1986)
- Directed by
- David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker
- Genre
- comedy film, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 451 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A greedy businessman is overjoyed when his wife is kidnapped because he was planning to murder her anyway. His former employees who abducted her are stuck with a hostage nobody wants to ransom back. Meanwhile the businessman's mistress tries to blackmail him but her scheme falls apart too.
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What happens
Ruthless People is a 1986 American black comedy film directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and written by Dale Launer. It stars Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Anita Morris, and Helen Slater, with Bill Pullman in a supporting role in his film debut. The film is the story of a couple who kidnap their ex-boss's wife to get revenge and extort money from him. They soon realize he does not want her back and was planning to kill her himself. Meanwhile, the boss's mistress plans a blackmail attempt on him, which also fails to go as planned. The film was a critical and commercial success. This was the last film released under the Touchstone Films label before Walt Disney Studios changed the name of the label to Touchstone Pictures as well as the last film directed by the Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker trio together. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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