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Ruthless People

Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!

Rating 6.6 / 10Release June 26, 1986Runtime 94 min

Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exchange for her life. Fully intending to ignore every one of the kidnappers' demands in the hopes that they do him a favor and murder her for him, the two confused kidnappers have to figure out how they're going get their money, and what they're going to do with the overbearing Barbara.

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