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?
Mr. Crystal and Mr. DeVito ... make one of the oddest pairs imaginable but have a rapport that's a delight.
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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
"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.
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.