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Throw Momma from the Train

Owen asked his friend Larry for a small favor.

1987 · PG-13 · 1h 28m

Directed by Danny DeVito

6.2

TMDB audience score
698 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Danny DeVito
    Owen 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
    Sergeant

  • Annie Ross
    Mrs. Hazeltine

  • Raye Birk
    Pinsky

  • Oprah Winfrey
    Oprah Winfrey

  • Olivia Brown
    Ms. Gladstone

  • Philip Perlman
    Mr. Perlman

  • Stu Silver
    Ramon

  • J. Alan Thomas
    Millington

  • Randall Miller
    Bucky

  • Andre Rosey Brown
    Rosey