Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300276574 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6300276570 Label: Walt Disney Video Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Video Release Date: July 31, 1989 Running Time: 93 minutes Studio: Walt Disney Video Theatrical Release Date: June 27, 1986 Sales Rank: 17597
Amazon.com: A milestone comedy of the 1980s, Ruthless People delighted critics and audiences alike and set the tone of Hollywood comedies for years to come. Along with that other popular farce about wealthy Californians, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, this ingenious romp revived Bette Midler's career and launched Disney (by way of its subsidiary, Touchstone Pictures) into the lucrative production of R-rated comedies; it also ensured the star power of then-TV star Danny DeVito. Dale Launer became Hollywood's hot screenwriter du jour by cleverly reworking O. Henry's Ransom of Red Chief into a wicked tale of marital malice heightened by a bungled kidnapping. Midler is sublime as the victim of low-rent abductors ("I've been kidnapped by Kmart!"), and DeVito's the gleeful philanderer who refuses to pay ransom for his wife's unwanted return. With Anita Morris, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, and Bill Pullman among the plot-twisting schemers, the movie's so much fun that an eventual remake seems almost inevitable. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating: - funny 80s flick
This movie is pretty funny! very 80s. It is a movie that I could watch again on a rainy day. I'm glad I bought it.
Rating: - Ruthlessly Funny! Mercilessly biting!
Danny DeVito is a wonderful dirtball, and Bette Middler is a spectacular loud-mouth shrew of a wife! They work so well as a dysfunctional couple it's scary! The script and plot for this movie are predominantly ... Read More
Rating: - Bellies of laughs and smiles
This is just plain nuts - a really funny film, with comedic actors who have honed their skills consummately, great scripting and direction, hilarious but believable sets and a thoroughly satisfying experience after ... Read More
Rating: - Amazing cast, solid comedy
Sam Stone (Danny DeVito) wants to kill his wife, Barbara (Bette Midler), due to equal parts of hate and greed. Before he can commit the crime, she is kidnapped by a married couple that Stone had cheated years earlier. ... Read More
Rating: - A COMEDY ABOUT "RUTHLESS PEOPLE"
A comedy with the creators of AIRPLANE! & Naked Gun!
A MUST SEE!!!!!!!!!!!!A Movie w/ the best cast!!!!!!
- funny 80s flick
- Ruthlessly Funny! Mercilessly biting!