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- Danny DeVito's direction is too broad to offer the kind of nastiness that would have made Throw Momma from the Train truly special, but DeVito's on-screen chemistry with co-star Billy Crystal makes this a smoothly entertaining comedy.
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No matter. “Throw Momma from the Train” is a series of missed opportunities and unexploited situations, a movie that wants to have genuine nastiness at its heart but never quite works up the energy or the nerve to be truly heartless. Paradoxically, its best scenes are the ones of gentle whimsy.
Larry (Billy Crystal), an author with a cruel ex-wife, Margaret (Kate Mulgrew), teaches a writing workshop where Owen (Danny DeVito), one of his students, is fed up with his domineering mother ...
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- Danny Devito
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Dark '80s comedy with slapstick and sexual content. Read Common Sense Media's Throw Momma from the Train review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Anne Ramsey, Billy Crystal, Danny Devito
- Danny Devito
- MGM/UA
Throw Momma from the Train is a movie well within its creators' comfort zones, but this is actually an advantage. It's a comforting, familiar film; probably counterproductive for a black comedy, but pleasant for a Crystal/DeVito joint.
Throw Momma from the Train is a 1987 American crime black comedy film starring and directed by Danny DeVito in his theatrical directorial debut. It co-stars Billy Crystal , Anne Ramsey , Rob Reiner , Branford Marsalis , Kim Greist and Kate Mulgrew .
Throw Momma from the Train is a comedic adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, which itself was adapted from the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith. Agatha Christie is the undisputed master of the murder mystery.
Throw Momma is another Hitchcock pastiche or parody, but--taken from Stu Silver's coldly clever, verbally intricate script--it has more depth and humor than usual.
