Sam stone (Danny DeVito), sick of living with his millionaire wife Barbara (Bette midler), and wishing to inherit her as soon as possible, he plans to assassinate her, throwing her corpse off a cliff.
But before she can do it, Barbara is kidnapped by Ken (Judge Reinhold) Y Sandy (Helen slater), a young couple, who in this way want to take revenge on the unscrupulous Mr stone who stole the idea of the elastic miniskirt, which produced so many benefits.
Ken Call to Stone asking him for a hefty ransom for freeing his wife. But this one, of course, does not intend to do the least to prevent Barbara. The other way around, this saves work.