Ruthless People (1986)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker

Writers: Dale Launer, O. Henry

Cinematographer: Jan de Bont

Composer: Michel Colombier

Cast: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Anita Morris, Bill Pullman, William G. Schilling, Art Evans, Clarence Felder, J.E. Freeman

In this oft hilarious madcap black farce, a very nice but rather naïve young couple kidnap the wife of “The Spandex Mini-Skirt King,” who has cheated them out of their lifesavings and stolen one of their fashion ideas, demanding a $500,000 ransom, but unfortunately for them he would be more than happy to never see her again, and in fact her death would be something of a bonus. Iain.Stott