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Ruthless People

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Ruthless People is a 1986 American black comedy film written by Dale Launer, directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, and starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Anita Morris, and Helen Slater, with Bill Pullman in a supporting role in his film debut. [1]

60 relations: Anita Morris, Art Evans, Arthur Schmidt (film editor), Basement, Bette Midler, Bill Pullman, Billy Joel, Black comedy, Bruce Springsteen, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Chloroform, Clarence Felder, Dale Launer, Dan Hartman, Danny DeVito, David Zucker (director), Don't You Want My Love, Epic Records, Gary Riley, Gene Siskel, Give Me the Reason (song), Helen Slater, Hollywood Hills, J. E. Freeman, Jan de Bont, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Judge Reinhold, Kidnapping, Kool & the Gang, Lillie McCloud, Luther Vandross, Machinations (band), Michael Eisner, Michael Peyser, Michel Colombier, Mick Jagger, Mistress (lover), Modern Woman, O. Henry, Patty Hearst, Paul Young, Prostitution, Roger Ebert, Rotten Tomatoes, Santa Monica Pier, Schizophrenia, Silver Screen Partners, Soundtrack, ..., Stand on It, Stockholm syndrome, The Ransom of Red Chief, TheWrap, Too Many Crooks, Touchstone Pictures, Waiting to See You, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home), William G. Schilling. Expand index (10 more) »

Anita Morris

Anita Rose Morris (March 14, 1943 – March 2, 1994) was an American actress, singer and dancer.

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Art Evans

Arthur James "Art" Evans (born March 27, 1942) is an American actor who has made multiple film and television program appearances over the span of three decades.

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Arthur Schmidt (film editor)

Arthur Schmidt (born 1937 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film editor with about 27 film credits between 1977 and 2005.

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Basement

A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are either completely or partially below the ground floor.

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Bette Midler

Bette Midler (Inside the Actors Studio, 2004 born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, comedian, and film producer.

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Bill Pullman

William James Pullman (born December 17, 1953) is an American actor.

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Billy Joel

William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Chloroform

Chloroform, or trichloromethane, is an organic compound with formula CHCl3.

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Clarence Felder

Clarence Felder (born September 2, 1938) is an American character actor who has starred in films and on television, and co-starred in ten Broadway productions.

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Dale Launer

Dale Launer (born May 19, 1952) is an American comedy screenwriter.

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Dan Hartman

Daniel Earl Hartman (December 8, 1950 – March 22, 1994) was an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Danny DeVito

Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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David Zucker (director)

David S. Zucker (born October 16, 1947) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Don't You Want My Love

"Don't You Want My Love" is a 1985/1986 major hit by Nicole McCloud under her mononym Nicole.

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Gary Riley

Gary Riley (born November 19, 1967) is a former American character actor with about thirty credits encompassing theatrical and made-for-TV films as well as episodes of TV series.

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Gene Siskel

Eugene Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune.

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Give Me the Reason (song)

"Give Me the Reason" is a song by American recording artist Luther Vandross, issued as the first single from the album of the same name.

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Helen Slater

Helen Rachel Slater (born December 15, 1963) is an American actress, singer and songwriter.

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Hollywood Hills

The Hollywood Hills are a part of the Santa Monica Mountains and also a hillside neighborhood of the same name in the central region of the city of Los Angeles, California.

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J. E. Freeman

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Jan de Bont

Jan de Bont (born 22 October 1943) is a former Dutch cinematographer, director and film producer.

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Jerry Zucker

Jerry G. Zucker (born March 11, 1950) is an American film producer, director, and writer known for his role in directing comedy spoof films such as Airplane! and Top Secret!, and the Best Picture-nominated supernatural drama film Ghost.

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Jim Abrahams

James S. Abrahams (born May 10, 1944) is an American movie director and writer.

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Judge Reinhold

Edward Ernest "Judge" Reinhold Jr. (born May 21, 1957) is an American actor who has starred in several Hollywood movies, such as Ruthless People, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Gremlins, and Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will?, and both trilogies for ''Beverly Hills Cop and ''The Santa Clause''.

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Kidnapping

In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful carrying away (asportation) and confinement of a person against his or her will.

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Kool & the Gang

Kool & the Gang are an American band formed in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964 by brothers Robert "Kool" Bell and Ronald Bell, with Dennis "D.T." Thomas, Robert Mickens, Charles Smith, George Brown, and Ricky West.

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Lillie McCloud

Lillie Arlene Nicole Jade McCloud (born December 7, 1958 in Rochester, New York), commonly known by her former stage name Nicole McCloud, or Nicole J. McCloud is an American dance and R&B singer.

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Luther Vandross

Luther Ronzoni Vandross Jr. (April 20, 1951 – July 1, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Machinations (band)

Machinations are an Australian synthpop band which formed in 1980.

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Michael Eisner

Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) is an American businessman.

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Michael Peyser

Michael Peyser (born January 7, 1981 in Lloyd Harbor, New York) is an American professional lacrosse player with the New Jersey Pride of Major League Lacrosse.

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Michel Colombier

Michel Colombier (May 23, 1939 – November 14, 2004) was a French composer, arranger, and conductor.

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Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943), known professionally as Mick Jagger, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor who gained fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones.

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Mistress (lover)

A mistress is a relatively long-term female lover and companion who is not married to her partner, especially when her partner is married to someone else.

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Modern Woman

"Modern Woman" is a song performed by Billy Joel from his album The Bridge.

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O. Henry

William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer.

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Patty Hearst

Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954), granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, became internationally known for events following her 1974 kidnapping and physical violation by a domestic American terrorist group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army.

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Paul Young

Paul Antony Young (born 17 January 1956) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Santa Monica Pier

The Santa Monica Pier is a large double-jointed pier at the foot of Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica, California.

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Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to understand reality.

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Silver Screen Partners

Silver Screen Partners refers to four limited partnerships organized as an alternative funding source for movies.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

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Stand on It

"Stand on It" is a song written and originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen.

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Stockholm syndrome

Stockholm syndrome is a condition that causes hostages to develop a psychological alliance with their captors as a survival strategy during captivity.

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The Ransom of Red Chief

"The Ransom of Red Chief" is a 1910 short story by O. Henry first published in The Saturday Evening Post.

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TheWrap

TheWrap is an entertainment and media news website founded by Sharon Waxman in 2009.

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Too Many Crooks

Too Many Crooks is a 1959 British comedy film about a bunch of inept crooks who kidnap the wife of a shady businessman, only for him to decide he doesn’t want her back.

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Touchstone Pictures

Touchstone Pictures is an American film distribution label of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

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Waiting to See You

"Waiting to See You" is a song by American musician-singer-songwriter Dan Hartman, released as a single in 1986 from the original motion picture soundtrack for the film Ruthless People.

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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (originally established as Buena Vista Film Distribution Company, Inc., Buena Vista Distribution Company, Inc. and Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc.) is an American film distributor owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)

"Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)" is a song written by Marvin Gaye, Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield, and first recorded by Gaye in 1962.

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William G. Schilling

William G. Schilling (born August 30, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a retired American actor of film and television.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthless_People

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