Throw Momma from the Train

1987 88 min Comedy, Crime, Thriller

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.

IMDb 6.3 RT 64 Metacritic 56

budget $14,000,000 earnings $57,915,972 return 4.1x

director Danny DeVito

writer Stu Silver

cast