Movie Review - Throw Momma From The Train

Today is "Throw Momma From The Train"

Starring Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal and Anne Ramsey as 'Momma'

The night was sultry. It was also humid, moist, wet, shiny, dreary, dry, bright, moonless and absurd! We are treated to the struggle that a writer goes through in order to put something worthwhile on paper. Yet, when something comes from the trauma of being taken as a hostage-for-hire and being kicked off a train, literally, it's usually good reading. In this case, our writing characters are harboring real bouts of depression from former lovers who steal books and talk trash on Oprah and current relatives who can hang up their own goddamn shawl but not clean out their own ears, betrayal, suffering, daily routines of washing the laundry in a rain storm, losing the brakes on the car so that it speeds down an overgrown hillside and through a tunnel that's undergoing construction phases. They're also fighting back every desire to kill their enemies, take back what's rightfully theirs, not get arrested for murder or hiring out contracts for murder and the all-time overwhelming desire to not put momma in a rest-home!

Larry Donner (Crystal) tries to help his student writer, while Owen Lift (DeVito) his student misinterprets Larry's pep-talk as a plan to murder each other's relations that are causing them vexation and sleepless nights.

Momma (Ramsey) steals the show as the wise-cracking momma who says 'Owen has no friends because he's fat and he's stupid!' It reminds me of my own tortured childhood. Even sliding down the the basement stairs on a badly installed door.

This has been my Movie Review. A writer writes, always.