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Throw Momma from the Train

1987 · 1h 28m · Comedy, Crime, Thriller · United States of America · Rated PG-13 (US)

Owen asked his friend Larry for a small favor.

Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own life, he decides to put the movie's plot into action and offers to kill Larry's ex-wife, if Larry promises to murder his mom. Before Larry gets a chance to react to the plan, it seems that Owen has already set things in motion.

Directed by
Danny DeVito
Written by
Stu Silver
Starring
Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Kim Greist, Anne Ramsey
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aspiring writercrime fiction writerdominant motherex-wifemurder swapmystery writeroverbearing mothertrainwriter's block
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