Throw Momma from the Train

Name: Throw Momma from the Train
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1987-12-11
Duration: 1 h 28 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Kim Greist, Anne Ramsey, Kate Mulgrew

Owen asked his friend Larry for a small favor.

Throw Momma from the Train (1987)

Timing: 1:28 (88 min)

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Release date

1987-12-11

Country

United States

Production

Orion Pictures

Genre

Comedy, Crime

Budget

$14 000 000

Revenue

$57 915 972

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Director

Danny DeVito

Actors

Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Kim Greist, Anne Ramsey, Kate Mulgrew, Branford Marsalis, Rob Reiner, Bruce Kirby, Annie Ross, Oprah Winfrey
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Scenario

Producer

Larry Brezner

Operator

Barry Sonnenfeld

Composer

David Newman

Artist

Audition

Editing

Michael Jablow
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Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

This film marked Danny DeVito's directorial debut.
During filming, actress Ann Ramsey was undergoing treatment for throat cancer and was in severe pain. However, according to Danny DeVito, she never asked to be excused from work. The role of 'Mom' became the actress’s brightest and most memorable role, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award in the 'Best Supporting Actress' category in 1988.
Director Rob Reiner made a cameo appearance in the film as Agent Larry.
The film parodies the thriller genre and is simultaneously a comedic remake of Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (1951) – a film that Owen goes to see in the cinema, where he comes up with the idea to "exchange murders" with Larry.
The frying pan that Danny DeVito hits Billy Crystal in the face with was made of rubber.
When Mama hits Larry in the groin with her cane, he falls to the floor and whispers: "That's not a woman. That's the Terminator." Arnold Schwarzenegger played the role of the Terminator, and Danny DeVito starred with him the following year in "Twins" (1988), and later again in "Junior" (1994).
The events in the film take place in 1987. At the end of the film, Larry and Owen meet again a year later – in 1988. Larry asks Owen: "How's your Mom?", to which he replies: "She's dead." Actress Ann Ramsey, who played the role of Mom, actually died in 1988, a year after the film's release.

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