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Throw Momma From the Train

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Throw Momma From the Train
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PG13,1hr 28min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1987
Director:
Danny DeVito
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Anne Ramsey  ...more
Synopsis: The "exchange murders" plot gambit, played with utter solemnity in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, is used as the launching pad for raucous laughter in Throw Momma From the Train. Director/star Danny DeVito plays Owen Lift, a middle-aged bachelor, totally dominated by his gorgon mother, played with hilarious ferocity by Anne Ramsey. Billy Crystal co-stars as Larry Donner, a creative-writing professor, saddled with a vituperative, thoroughly despicable ex-wife, Margaret (Kate Mulgrew). Signing up ... Full Synopsis
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Mike DiBella, AMG Review
Director Danny DeVito guides this black comedy with a demented oddball vision and also turns in a magnificently eccentric performance as the diminutive schnook, Owen. The film itself is a sickly hilarious Keystone capers-style comedy punctuated by some great acting and dialogue. Billy Crystal gives a nice performance in the lead, but it is the late Anne Ramsey as the ghoulish Momma who makes your skin ... Full Review
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Danny DeVito
Owen Lift
Billy Crystal
Larry Donner
Anne Ramsey
Momma
Kim Greist
Beth
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