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Ruthless People
1986 · Film · 94 min
Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
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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Reminds me of the movie Ruthless People with Danny DeVito and Bette Midler, about "a couple who kidnap their ex-boss's wife to get revenge and extort money from him [but] soon realize he does not want her back and was planning to kill her himself." Hilarious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthless_People
> The issue first surfaced during Bork`s confirmation hearings, when a Washington newspaper published lists of the judge`s video rentals during the last several years. The films were general releases such as ''Ruthless People,'' ''The Man Who Knew Too Much'' and ''A Day at the Races''; there were no X-rated rentals.
~Chicago Tribune, November 20, 1987 (source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-11-20-8703270590-story.html)