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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?
Duration: 88 min
Quality: HD
Release: 1987
IMDb: 6.3
Keywords:  #Billy Crystal #Danny DeVito #Kim Greist #Throw Momma from the Train
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Janet Maslin
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Mr. Crystal and Mr. DeVito ... make one of the oddest pairs imaginable but have a rapport that's a delight.
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April 29, 2005
darkly hilarious
Cathy Burke
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
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Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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.
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Brian Costello
Common Sense Media
September 13, 2012
Dark '80s comedy with slapstick and sexual content.
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Rita Kempley
Washington Post
January 01, 2000
Better yet, just throw the whole thing in front of a subway and hope it gets dragged a couple of miles.
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David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
February 27, 2015
...a fairly forgettable piece of work that could (and should) have been so much better...
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Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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.
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Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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.
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Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
November 18, 2004
Funny film that sort of play-acts being a black comedy
Dennis Schwartz
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January 11, 2016
So-so diverting one-note black comedy.
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Variety Staff
Variety
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.
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