Ruthless People

This morning I watched "Ruthless People" with Bette Middler and Danny De Vito (also Bill Pullman and Judge Reinhold). Remember Judge Reinhold? Who doesn't like Judge Reinhold? (Beverly Hills Cop etc.) To me, he was one of the cutest 80's actor ever. Anyways, "Ruthless People" was released in 1986 produced by Michael Peyser (who also produced another one of my favorite movies of all times "Hackers"; who can forget Angelina Jolie with her short hair and cool style?) and directed by 3 people who I won't discuss here because it's too many people to direct a movie!!! I guess maybe something happened there or did they really co-direct? Anyways, all three have gone on to either write or produce very funny movies. "Ruthless People" is a comedy (if you didn't know that already by the cast...) about a dude who wants to kill his wife but two very bad kidnappers beat him to it. They kidnap her before he gets to kill her and so the "dude" who is played by Danny De Vito decides to kill her by omission. He won't pay the ransom, so they will kill her. Bill Pullman plays a minor role as a dimwit and he is actually quite funny as the dumbest guy in LA. Bette Middler is awesome as usual. She's  fat when she is kidnapped and then she spends her time working out, so when she is "rescued" ( I won't tell you a lot about the story just in case you want to see it so I won't spoil it) she is a beautiful thin woman. Not that she wasn't beautiful before, but you know what I mean. The two popcorns I give this movie are for: 1. it made me laugh with some of its silly situations. It is such an 80's comedy and I do love those, because they used to be wacky instead of tacky (as a lot of them are nowadays.) and 2. I liked how the character Ms. Midler portrays a woman who is quite ignorant and oblivious not only of herself but of her douchebag husband and how she takes advantage of her crummy situation, she learns from it and grows from it and hence, in the end, transforms herself into a much better person.