# Balance maman hors du train (1987)

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**Original title**: *Throw Momma from the Train*
**Runtime**: 88 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
**Directed by**: Danny DeVito
**Written by**: Stu Silver
**Starring**: Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Kim Greist, Anne Ramsey, Kate Mulgrew, Branford Marsalis

> *Owen asked his friend Larry for a small favor.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: mindfuck, pitch-black, playful

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