Country:United States
Runtime:93 min
Released:27 Jun 1986
Plot: Ruthless People (1986) Sam Stone (Danny DeVito) is a clothing manufacturer, who married his wife Barbara (Bette Midler), for the money that she was supposed 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 Dodsworth (Anita Morris) 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 (Judge Reinhold) and Sandy (Helen Slater) Kessler 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 named Earl Mott (Bill Pullman), and they plan to blackmail Sam, by videotaping him disposing of Barbara's body. When Earl goes there to do that, the person who goes there was not Sam but a man with a hooker (Jeannine Bisignano), and he instructs the hooker to scream her head off, Earl mistakenly believes that Barbara's not dead and that Sam was killing her there, and was so freaked out that he didn't bother to see if it was Sam. Carol tries to put her plan in operation by sending Sam a copy of the tape, Sam thinks that it's for something kinky that Carol wants and when Sam tells her that he is going to do what was done on the tape to her, she assumes that he is going to kill her. So she sends another copy of the tape to the Chief of Police (William G. Schilling), and tells him that she wants him to arrest Sam for murdering Barbara, and the Chief is happy to oblige cause he is the man who is on the tape. The Chief manages to find the instruments that Sam was going to use to kill Barbara and arrests him. Sam now has to get Barbara, alive, so that he can prove that he didn't kill her. And Barbara starts to bond with Sandy.
More Movies on AZMovies
Zelig (1983)
Zelig (1983) Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
The Forgiveness of Blood (2011)
The Forgiveness of Blood (2011) This film centers on a family in Albania, with main characters Rudina, the oldest daughter, and Nik, the oldest son. Both have a pretty normal life. Rudina is an A-student in high school hoping to continue on at university; Nik, very popular, is just falling in love w
A Fairly Odd Movie 2011
Timmy turns 23 and his godparents are fighting to keep him, while Crocker is still up to his nefarious schemes.
Lamour braque (1985)
Lamour braque 1985 After the successful bank robbery Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Mary who has been taken from him by the brothers Venin On the way to Paris he meets one Leon, a neurotic and dreamer, whom he and his associates consider an idiot Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up
Lorenzos Oil (1992)
Lorenzos Oil (1992) Until about the age of 7, Lorenzo Odone was a normal child. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD: an extremely rare incurable degenerative
Jesse James Unchained (2022)
Jesse James Unchained 2022 The story of one of the greatest outlaw legends of the old west, Jesse James After escaping captivity, Jesse finds himself on the run with one more score on his mind before disappearing for good
Lion Spy (2021)
Lion Spy 2021 Part thriller, part expose, the dramatic new documentary, LION SPY has it all When a young woman who wants to prevent the extinction of wild lions, she decides to create a false identity to portray herself as a big game photographer and rather seamlessly infiltrates the male dominated
When the Vows Break (1995)
When the Vows Break 1995 Patty Duke stars as a woman who represents herself in court when she receives a derisory divorce settlement
The Lake House (2006)
A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Who Made the Potatoe Salad? (2006)
An urban romantic comedy about a young San Diego policeman who travels to Los Angeles with his fiancée to meet her dysfunctional family and announce their engagement.
Ghost of New Orleans (2011)
Ghost of New Orleans (2011) In post-Katrina New Orleans, a disgraced detective encounters the ghost of a murdered woman who wants to help him identify her killer.
R P M (1970)
R P M 1970 R P M stands for political revolutions per minute Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the heady days of campus activism in the late 1960s Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, and Quinns character, who has always been a c
Die Screaming Marianne (1971)
After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely death of her mother, the one daughter stands to inherit a large sum of money and also a number of documents containing information that will incriminate he
Discarded Things (2020)
Discarded Things (2020) When the life of Grace Wyatt, an esteemed music professor, is disrupted by tragedy, she finds herself thrown out of her lavish academic world and into the harsh reality of teaching at-risk youth.
Russian Dolls (2005)
Russian Dolls (2005) Xavier is now thirty. No longer a student, he is not yet a well-balanced, fulfilled adult either. His career is unsatisfying: Far from being the renowned novelist he aimed to be he must be content with little jobs such as reporter or ghost writer. His greatest "achievement" in "