If you loved Death to Smoochy, try Throw Momma from the Train

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Both films are directed by Danny DeVito, and they both carry the pitch black mood tag, and they sit in Comedy / Crime / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Death to Smoochy, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Throw Momma from the Train is

L.A. Autumn. A typewriter's taunt. A writing instructor drowning in a failed marriage, a student stewing in mother-hate, and a dark deal proposed Hitchcock-style. DeVito’s comic crime owes a debt to both Hitchcock and Wilder.

If you loved Death to Smoochy, try Throw Momma from the Train

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If you loved Death to Smoochy, try Throw Momma from the Train

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