Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!
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.
Comedybusinessmanransomkidnappingfemale loverdark comedysanta monica, california
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Character
Comic, cool, ironic and unpretentious.
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Danny DeVitoSam Stone
- Bette MidlerBarbara Stone
- Judge ReinholdKen Kessler
- Helen SlaterSandy Kessler
- Anita MorrisCarol Dodsworth
- Bill PullmanEarl James Mott
- William G. SchillingChief Henry Benton
- Art EvansLt. Bender
- Clarence FelderLt. Walters
- J.E. FreemanBedroom Killer
Crew
- David ZuckerDirector
- Jerry ZuckerDirector
- Jim AbrahamsDirector
- Dale LaunerScreenplay
- Jan de BontDirector of Photography
- Michel ColombierOriginal Music Composer
- Gib JaffeEditor
- Arthur SchmidtEditor
- Michael PeyserProducer
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