Ruthless People

Ruthless People (1986) is a movie Danny DeVito and Bette Midler who star as Sam and Barbara Stone and Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater who star as Ken and Sandy Kessler.  The Kesslers decide to get justice by kidnapping Barbara Stone and demand a ransom.  Sam Stone, who sees freedom in his future, decides to ensure that his wife does not come back alive.  Through the greed on Sams part and the ineptness on the Kesslers part the movie twists and turns throughout with one humorous moment followed by another.  There are a few crude references but overall the humor is more above brow.  When I was training for our Relax the Back Stores I would use a couple of scenes from this movie to show positive and negative sales approaches modeled by Ken Kessler, a salesman in what was equivalent to an electronics store.  No one actor out shadows another but Danny DeVito is in rare form in this movie.