Ruthless People (1986)
"Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!"
ThumbScore
👍 75%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 86%
(RT: 93%, MC: 78) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Anita Morris as Carol Dodsworth
William G. Schilling as Chief Henry Benton
Is Ruthless People good?
Most people think so. 75% audience score, estimated from 467 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 86%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
