Ruthless People (1986)

Storyline

Sam Stone is a clothing manufacturer, who married his wife Barbara, for the money that she was suppose to inherit from her dying father, but her father didn’t die for another fifteen years. He is now planning to kill her and he tells his girlfriend Carol what he is going to do. He then on his way home to do just that but when he gets there, she’s not there. He then receives a call from someone claiming to have kidnapped Barbara and threatening to kill her if he informs the police, which he does hoping that they do. What Stone doesn’t know is that the kidnappers, Ken and Sandy are a couple whose idea for a garment he stole and made fortune off, are not that lethal, as a matter of fact Barbara’s more lethal. And what Stone doesn’t know is that Carol, has another boyfriend and they plan to blackmail Sam, by videotaping him disposing of Barbara’s body. When her boyfriend, Earl goes there to do that… Ruthless People, the 1986 Jim Abrahams kidnapping crime comedy (“The Big Screw”; “Written by Dale Launer”) starring Danny DeVito, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Bette Midler (“as Barbara Stone”), Anita Morris, Bill Pullman, and William G. Schilling