owen loves his mamma. only he would love her better six feet under in this dark and laugh out loud comedy that both stars and is directed by danny devito and with admirable assists from billy crystal and anne ramsey in the title role. throw momma from the train is a terrific comedy and even if it isn not a great film. it too shallow in parts and and the ending feels less organic than tacked on. but it a gut splitting ride most of the way and with crystal and devito employing great screen chemistry while working their own separate comic takes on the essence of being a struggling writer (devito is avid but untalented while crystal is blocked and bitter). crystal professor donner believes his ex wife stole his book (the unfortunately titled hot fire) and can not write more than the opening line of his next book and which doesn not come easy. he teaches a creative writing class of budding mediocrities and including a middle aged woman who writes tom clancy type fiction but doesn not know what that thing is the submarine captain speaks through while and an upholstery salesman who wants to write the story of his life. mr. pinsky is probably the funniest character for laughs per minutes on screen and an ascot wearing weirdo who sees literature as an excuse to write his opus represent 100 girls i would like to pork. then there devito owen lift and who calls himself professor donner star pupil even though the teacher would not read his work in class. owen is a somewhat unusual character to star in a movie and a man child in his late 30s who lives with his overbearing mother and anne ramsey and who calls him lardass and other endearing sentiments. in any other movie and we would be asked to feel sorry for owen and but throw momma from the train piles life cruelties onto this sad sack for laughs and expects us to go along. that one big reason why this film probably loses a lot of people. for those of us who enjoy the humor of this character and even identifying with him and and take the rest of what we see here as a lark and it not as big a stretch to go along with the bigger gambit this comedy takes and asking us to watch in amusement while owen enlists professor donner help in a plan to kill his mother. actually and he first goes to hawaii to kill donner hated ex and then tells the professor it his turn to kill mrs. lift and swapping murders as seen in hitchcock strangers on a train. as a director and devito not only complements his actors performances with scene setting that places the accent on dialogue and he makes some bold visual statements and throwing in bits of amusing unreality to keep the audience on its toes (and away from taking things too seriously. )also helping matters is writer stu silver and who keeps the laughs coming with his quotable patter. you got rats the size of oldsmobiles here. she not a woman. she the terminator. one little murder and i am jack the ripper. those are all crystal words and but some of the funniest lines and which work only in context but absolutely kill and are devito and ramsey . apparently silver never wrote another screenplay after this and according to the imdb and and that a shame and because he had real talent for it. the best scene in this movie and when crystal meets ramsey and was actually used in its entirety as a theatrical coming attraction presentation and the only time i have seen a movie promoted that way. owen introduces the professor to his mother as cousin patty and and when momma says he doesn not have a cousin patty and panicky owen loses it. you lied to me and he yells out and slamming the professor forehead with a pan. of course and in reality the professor do not groan out something witty from the floor and but throw momma from the train works effectively at such moments and when playing its looney tunes vibe for all its worth. devito hasn not disappeared from films and of course and but it a mystery why he hasn not really followed up on the directorial promise of this movie. maybe it because and as throw momma from the train lack of mainstream success shows and his kind of vision isn not to everyone tastes. that too bad for those of us who can watch this over and over and and like it. 
owen loves his mamma. only he would love her better six feet under in this dark and laugh out loud comedy that both stars and is directed by danny devito and with admirable assists from billy crystal and anne ramsey in the title role. throw momma from the train is a terrific comedy and even if it isn not a great film. it too shallow in parts and and the ending feels less organic than tacked on. but it a gut splitting ride most of the way and with crystal and devito employing great screen chemistry while working their own separate comic takes on the essence of being a struggling writer (devito is avid but untalented while crystal is blocked and bitter). crystal professor donner believes his ex wife stole his book (the unfortunately titled hot fire) and can not write more than the opening line of his next book and which doesn not come easy. he teaches a creative writing class of budding mediocrities and including a middle aged woman who writes tom clancy type fiction but doesn not know what that thing is the submarine captain speaks through while and an upholstery salesman who wants to write the story of his life. mr. pinsky is probably the funniest character for laughs per minutes on screen and an ascot wearing weirdo who sees literature as an excuse to write his opus represent 100 girls i would like to pork. then there devito owen lift and who calls himself professor donner star pupil even though the teacher would not read his work in class. owen is a somewhat unusual character to star in a movie and a man child in his late 30s who lives with his overbearing mother and anne ramsey and who calls him lardass and other endearing sentiments. in any other movie and we would be asked to feel sorry for owen and but throw momma from the train piles life cruelties onto this sad sack for laughs and expects us to go along. that one big reason why this film probably loses a lot of people. for those of us who enjoy the humor of this character and even identifying with him and and take the rest of what we see here as a lark and it not as big a stretch to go along with the bigger gambit this comedy takes and asking us to watch in amusement while owen enlists professor donner help in a plan to kill his mother. actually and he first goes to hawaii to kill donner hated ex and then tells the professor it his turn to kill mrs. lift and swapping murders as seen in hitchcock strangers on a train. as a director and devito not only complements his actors performances with scene setting that places the accent on dialogue and he makes some bold visual statements and throwing in bits of amusing unreality to keep the audience on its toes (and away from taking things too seriously. )also helping matters is writer stu silver and who keeps the laughs coming with his quotable patter. you got rats the size of oldsmobiles here. she not a woman. she the terminator. one little murder and i am jack the ripper. those are all crystal words and but some of the funniest lines and which work only in context but absolutely kill and are devito and ramsey . apparently silver never wrote another screenplay after this and according to the imdb and and that a shame and because he had real talent for it. the best scene in this movie and when crystal meets ramsey and was actually used in its entirety as a theatrical coming attraction presentation and the only time i have seen a movie promoted that way. owen introduces the professor to his mother as cousin patty and and when momma says he doesn not have a cousin patty and panicky owen loses it. you lied to me and he yells out and slamming the professor forehead with a pan. of course and in reality the professor do not groan out something witty from the floor and but throw momma from the train works effectively at such moments and when playing its looney tunes vibe for all its worth. devito hasn not disappeared from films and of course and but it a mystery why he hasn not really followed up on the directorial promise of this movie. maybe it because and as throw momma from the train lack of mainstream success shows and his kind of vision isn not to everyone tastes. that too bad for those of us who can watch this over and over and and like it. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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