Throw Momma from the Train
Larry, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop where Owen, one of his students, is fed up with his domineering mother. Both want their respective spouse and mother dead, but who will pull it off?
26 May 1921, Spokane, Washington, USA
8 May 1957, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 March 1948, Yorkville, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
16 January 1903, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
26 August 1960, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
8 May 1950, USA
25 July 1930, Mitcham, Surrey, England, UK
December 6, 1939 in Springerville, Arizona, USA
14 June 1960, New York City, New York, USA
6 March 1947, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
July 24, 1975 in West Covina, California, USA
7 February 1956, Rockford, Illinois, USA
17 November 1944, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA
12 May 1958, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
24 April 1928, New York City, New York, USA
15 February 1953, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
29 January 1954, Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA
15 August 1919, Poland
29 April 1955, Dubuque, Iowa, USA
27 May 1943, Flint, Michigan, USA
February 27, 2015
...a fairly forgettable piece of work that could (and should) have been so much better...
June 24, 2006
If it all gets a little soft-centred towards the end, there's more than enough vitality and invention to be going on with.
January 01, 2000
Better yet, just throw the whole thing in front of a subway and hope it gets dragged a couple of miles.
September 13, 2012
Dark '80s comedy with slapstick and sexual content.
November 08, 2016
Danny DeVito directs and stars in this funny, offbeat homage to Alfred Hitchcock thrillers, but it's co-star Billy Crystal who brings all the elements together
March 26, 2009
Very clever and engaging from beginning to end, pic builds on the notion that nearly everyone - at least once in life - has the desire to snuff out a relative or nemesis, even if 99.9% of us let the urge pass without ever acting on it.
May 20, 2003
Mr. Crystal and Mr. DeVito ... make one of the oddest pairs imaginable but have a rapport that's a delight.
January 11, 2016
So-so diverting one-note black comedy.
November 18, 2004
Funny film that sort of play-acts being a black comedy
January 01, 2000
You can feel how much fun it was for DeVito to direct this. But the movie's one-note broadness seems suited more to cable.
April 29, 2005
darkly hilarious
January 01, 2000
"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.
