Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Name: Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Genre: Action, Comedy
Released: 1992-02-21
Duration: 1 h 27 min
Rating: 5.5
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams, Roger Rees, Martin Ferrero

Detective Joe Bomowski's mom is in town for a visit. She did the laundry, washed the windows and scrubbed the floors. Now, she's gonna clean up the streets.

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)

Timing: 1:27 (87 min)

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Release date

1992-02-21

Country

United States

Production

Universal Pictures, Northern Lights Entertainment

Genre

Action, Comedy

Budget

$45 000 000

Revenue

$70 611 210

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Director

Roger Spottiswoode

Actors

Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams, Roger Rees, Martin Ferrero, Gailard Sartain, John Wesley, Al Fann, Ella Joyce, J. Kenneth Campbell
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Scenario

Producer

Ivan Reitman, Michael C. Gross, Joe Medjuck, Joe Wizan, Todd Black

Operator

Frank Tidy

Composer

Alan Silvestri

Artist

Audition

Jackie Burch

Editing

Mark Conte, Lois Freeman-Fox
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Short description

A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.

What's left behind the scenes

Stallone considers this film the worst of his career.
Estelle Getty (1923-2008) categorically refused to appear in the film because it would feature weapons. The filmmakers had to lie, telling her that the film would not contain any weapons in order to finally get her to sign the contract.
In one interview, Sylvester Stallone admitted that as soon as he heard that Arnold Schwarzenegger had expressed interest in the role, he immediately called his agent and ordered him to secure the role at all costs. Only many years later did he find out that Schwarzenegger was only pretending to want to star in the film, counting on Stallone’s reaction.
When Estelle Getty's character shows people photographs of her son, the black-and-white picture of the boy in a plaid shirt genuinely depicts Sylvester Stallone. The same photograph is also shown in John G. Avildsen's (1935-2017) film "Rocky" (1976).
Filming took place in California from May 14 to August 9, 1991.

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