Ruthless People
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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ValorScore's Content Advisory for "Ruthless People" is "Moderate" (30/100), measuring sex, violence, language, and drug use. See the full per-axis breakdown below to decide if it fits your family.
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