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.
Unfortunately the movie Ruthless People is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Production | Ellen Chenoweth | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rosanna Norton | Costume Designer |
| Production | Jeffrey Chernov | Unit Production Manager |
| Directing | William S. Beasley | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Bruce Humphrey | Second Assistant Director |
| Art | Donald B. Woodruff | Art Direction |
| Sound | Tommy Mottola | Music Supervisor |
| Art | Anne D. McCulley | Set Decoration |
| Sound | Charles L. Campbell | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Sound | Louis L. Edemann | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Sound | Larry Carow | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Samuel C. Crutcher | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Mike Dobie | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Chuck Neely | Sound Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Brad Wilder | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Barbara Lorenz | Key Hair Stylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Eric H. Sandberg | Costume Supervisor |
| Sound | Donald O. Mitchell | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Rick Kline | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Kevin O'Connell | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Directing | Jim Abrahams | Director |
| Directing | David Zucker | Director |
| Directing | Jerry Zucker | Director |
| Writing | Dale Launer | Screenplay |
| Production | Joanna Lancaster | Executive Producer |
| Production | Walter Yetnikoff | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Jan de Bont | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Gib Jaffe | Editor |
| Production | Michael Peyser | Producer |
| Art | Sally Cruikshank | Opening Title Sequence |
| Production | Richard Wagner | Executive Producer |
| Crew | Pat Romano | Stunts |
| Sound | Billy Joel | Songs |
| Sound | Mick Jagger | Songs |
| Crew | Ralph Garrett | Stunts |
| Crew | Gene Hartline | Stunts |
| Crew | Diamond Farnsworth | Stunts |
| Crew | Vince Deadrick Sr. | Stunts |
| Crew | Richard Drown | Stunts |
| Crew | Brad Bovee | Stunts |
| Crew | Ray Bickel | Stunts |
| Crew | Danny Costa | Stunts |
| Crew | Phil Adams | Stunts |
| Crew | Wayne King Sr. | Stunts |
| Crew | Sasha Jenson | Stunts |
| Crew | Carol Neilson Smrz | Stunts |
| Crew | Max Kleven | Stunts |
| Crew | Kathleen O'Haco | Stunts |
| Crew | Tracy Keehn-Dashnaw | Stunts |
| Crew | Ben Scott | Stunts |
| Crew | John-Clay Scott | Stunts |
| Crew | Carol Rees | Stunts |
| Crew | Ted White | Stunts |
| Crew | Brian Smrz | Stunts |
| Crew | Mike Watson | Stunts |
| Crew | Loren Janes | Stunts |
| Crew | Faith Minton | Stunts |
| Editing | Arthur Schmidt | Editor |
| Sound | Michel Colombier | Original Music Composer |
| Crew | Walter Scott | Stunt Coordinator |
| Crew | Charles Croughwell | Stunts |
| Crew | Gregory J. Barnett | Stunts |
