Throw Momma from the Train (1987)

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Throw Momma from the Train (1987)

Directed by
Danny DeVito

Plot description:
The "exchange murders" plot gambit, played with utter solemnity in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, is used as the launching pad for raucous laughter in Throw Momma From the Train. Director/star Danny DeVito plays Owen Lift, a middle-aged bachelor, totally dominated by his gorgon mother, played with hilarious ferocity by Anne Ramsey. Billy Crystal co-stars as Larry Donner, a creative-writing professor, saddled with a vituperative, thoroughly despicable ex-wife, Margaret (Kate Mulgrew). Signing up for Larry's writing course, Owen has trouble at first with character development and construction in his stories. Larry recommends that Owen watch a screening of Strangers on a Train, which he considered a model of tight, concise storytelling. Owen is so entranced by the film that he decides to emulate Strangers star Robert Walker. That is, Owen wants Larry to bump off his mother, in exchange for Owen's murder of Margaret. Without being asked, Owen does away with Margaret (or so it seems), then hounds Larry to the point of killing "Momma." [source: janet maslin, nytimes.com]

Cast:

	Danny DeVito	....	Owen/Ned 'Little Ned' Lift
	Billy Crystal	....	Larry Donner
	Kim Greist	....	Beth Ryan
	Anne Ramsey	....	Mrs. Lift
	Kate Mulgrew	....	Margaret Donner
	Branford Marsalis	....	Lester
	Rob Reiner	....	Joel
	Bruce Kirby	....	Detective DeBenedetto
	Joey DePinto	....	Police Sergeant
	Annie Ross	....	Mrs. Hazeltine, Creative Writing Student
	Raye Birk	....	Mr. Pinsky, Creative Writing Student
	Oprah Winfrey	....	Herself
	Olivia Brown	....	Ms. Gladstone, Lester's Girlfriend
	Philip Perlman	....	Phil Perlman, Creative Writing Student
	Stu Silver	....	Ramon
	J. Alan Thomas	....	Millington
	Randall Miller	....	Bucky
	Andre Rosey Brown	....	Rosey (as Andre 'Rosey' Brown)
	Tony Ciccone	....	Mr. Lopez, Margaret's Gardener
	William Ray Watson	....	Steward on Cruise Ship
	Larry McCormick	....	Announcer
	Peter Brocco	....	Old Man in Hospital
	Hettie Lynne Hurtes	....	Reporter
	Karen J. Westerfield	....	Laughing Woman
	Stanley L. Gonsales	....	Cab Driver
	Fred Gephart	....	Priest
	Don Burns	....	Radio DJ
	Billy Childs	....	Jazz Band
	Ralph Penland	....	Jazz Band
	Tony Dumas	....	Jazz Band