Ruthless People

Meet the RUTHLESS PEOPLE SAM STONE - loathsome businessman who's delighted when his wife is kidnapped. He was planning to murder her anyway. BARBARA STONE - spoiled heiress whose obnoxious behavior makes her captors consider paying Sam to take her back. KEN and SANDY - the kidnappers. Their problem is whether they can keep their prisoner in the luxury to which she's accustomed. CAROL - Sam's mistress. Can she and her boyfriend EARL screw Sam for every dollar he's got? A new edition of the 80s classic tie-in. Touchstone Films presents in association with Silver Screen Partners IIA Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker FilmRuthless PeopleA Wagner/Lancaster ProductionStarring Danny DeVito, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater and Bette Midler as Barbara StoneExecutive Producers Richard Wagner and Joanna Lancaster and Walter YernikoffScreenplay written by Dale Launer. Novelization by Martin NobleProduced by Michael Peyser. Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry ZuckerDistributed by Buena Vista Distribution Co. Inc.(c)1986 Touchstone Films