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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?
29 January 1954, Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA
16 January 1903, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
26 May 1921, Spokane, Washington, USA
7 February 1956, Rockford, Illinois, USA
15 February 1953, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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.
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.
January 11, 2016
So-so diverting one-note black comedy.
May 20, 2003
Mr. Crystal and Mr. DeVito ... make one of the oddest pairs imaginable but have a rapport that's a delight.
February 27, 2015
...a fairly forgettable piece of work that could (and should) have been so much better...
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.
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.
April 29, 2005
darkly hilarious
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
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.
