1987 · black-comedy · parody · hitchcock
Throw Momma from the Train
Directed by Danny DeVito1h 28m1987
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.
Our read: Throw Momma from the Train (1987) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive black-comedy · parody · hitchcock entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured black-comedy / parody, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- kinetic
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