Product Summary
Format: DVD
Buy.com Sku: 40164190
UPC: 00717951005106
Item#: V4MYL9
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Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped...and he doesn't want her back!
In this fiendishly funny comedy from the creators of Airplane!, loathsome millionaire Sam Stone (Danny DeVito) is ruthless. How ruthless? When his shrill wife Barbara (Bette Midler) is nabbed by inept kidnappers (Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater), Sam cries tear of joy...and refuses to pay the ransom. And when the abductors threaten to kill the abrasive heiress, Sam takes immediate action--he celebrates!
"...grabs you by the funny bone and tickles you until you shriek for mercy... Rex Reed
"This boisterous farce merits a case of bubbly. Time Magazine
Editor's Note
In this comedy from the directing team responsible for AIRPLANE!, two kidnappers discover, to their shock, that the husband (Danny DeVito) of the wealthy woman (Bette Midler) they've snatched won't pay the ransom and is, in fact, celebrating the possibility that she may be murdered.It isn't long before the abductors understand why: their captive, who harangues them with a never-ending stream of abuse, is more trouble than she's worth. But as they get to know her, and learn more about her husband, it dawns on the kidnappers that he's no treasure either--and that getting abducted may be the best thing that's happened to their victim in a long time.
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Cast & Crew
Awards
Golden Globe (1987)
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Danny DeVito, Nominee, Best Actor In A Motion Picture--Comedy/Musical |
Professional Reviews
New York Times
"...A uniformly splendid cast of comic actors....True farce, uniformly, cheerily nasty..."
06/27/1986 p.C3
Variety
"...A hilariously venal comedy....Dazzlingly fresh and modern....Though quite sophisticated, it is pitched just right to include everyone in on the joke..."
06/25/1986
Los Angeles Times
"....Hilarious....[The directors] fill the movie with comic vigor; they skewer their victims with panache..."
06/27/1986 p.C1
Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
The movie is slapstick with a deft character touch here and there... at the end I felt grateful for its goofiness... DeVito is a great joy to watch in this movie... Ruthless People is made out of good performances, a script of diabolical ingenuity and a whole lot of silliness.
- Roger Ebert
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