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A comedy based on the rag trade, where new designs are fair game for ruthless competitors. A fashion millionaire's wife is kidnapped, but when the kidnappers try to extort money they find that he has gone out celebrating with his mistress. Read more

Starring Danny De Vito, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Bette Midler
Director Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Genres Comedy

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Ruthless People

A comedy based on the rag trade, where new designs are fair game for ruthless competitors. A fashion millionaire's wife is kidnapped, but when the kidnappers try to extort money they find that he has gone out celebrating with his mistress.

Starring Danny De Vito, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Bette Midler
Director Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Studio TOUCHSTONE HOME VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 31 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Comedy
Language English
Released DVD: 23 Aug 2004
Production year: 1986
Format DVD

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    Airplane! partners Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker and David Zucker teamed up again for this fun comedy about a pair of bumbling kidnappers — Helen Slater and Judge Reinhold — who snatch wealthy Bette Midler, unaware that her husband Danny DeVito doesn't want her back. The movie twists and turns as a whole host of other people get involved (including Anita Morris as DeVito's mistress and a young Bill Pullman as her mentally challenged lover). DeVito and Midler are superb in their roles as the greedy philanderer and his screaming, overbearing other half.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • The Airplane team dusts off the old idea of kidnappers abducting someone so obnoxious that no one wants to know. Sleazy... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    TOP MOVIE !!!

    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.

      • A customer from GLASGOW
      • Posted 30 May 2005 21:42

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  • Rated - 3 stars

    a good film without being funny

    i expected hilarity with bette but it was just silly. still it was a good film and worth watching

      • A customer from torquay
      • Posted 29 Jul 2005 13:07

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