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Movies for Cheap Cunts: 1987's Throw Momma from the Train

Starring Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, and Anne Ramsey. This cult classic was DeVito's directorial debut, and set the tone for his brand of dark, semi-surrealistic comedy. It features Crystal as a bland and burned-out professor of creative writing, whose most irritating student (DeVito) stumbles onto a Hitchcockian idea to solve both men's problems: He'll murder Crystal's thieving slut ex-wife, if Crystal agrees to kill his disgusting old crone of a mother. Comedy ensues. Also starring DL fave Kim Greist.

Memorable scenes include:

- DeVito's character calling Crystal's character from a series of increasingly elaborate payphone locations

- Crystal's ex-wife (an early Kate Mulgrew) loudly fucking her gardener in Hawaii

- DeVito's many fantasies about killing his awful mother (including with a trumpet, which makes Momma think Louis Armstrong was trying to kill her)

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by Anonymousreply 4August 26, 2025 8:15 PM

Anne Ramsey was NOT deserving of an Oscar nom

by Anonymousreply 1August 26, 2025 5:55 PM

You may find this thread of interest.

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by Anonymousreply 2August 26, 2025 7:08 PM

The night was sultry.

by Anonymousreply 3August 26, 2025 8:03 PM

Too damned sultry in here!

by Anonymousreply 4August 26, 2025 8:15 PM
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