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...Crimson batsmen were limited to four hits in the first game, but scored the deciding run in the bottom of the first. Designated hitter Tom Konjoyan was hit by Huskie Jim Walker's errant pitch to start the attack. When Walker's pickoff attempt eluded Dan DeVito's stretch at first, Konjoyan advanced to second. Freshman Marcel Durand's single and Co-Captain Frank Caprio's sacrifice fly to deep left field brought Konjoyan home for the only run the Crimson would need...
...terms, they wear the mask of the Me-First '80s only to reveal the crinkly face of '30s romantic farce. Two of them boast the most ingratiating doll faces in today's Hollywood: the cartoon countenance of Goldie Hawn, in Overboard, and the Garbage Pail Kid visage of Danny DeVito, in Throw Momma from the Train...
...performances in this film are uniformly excellent. Billy Crystal's casual, off-hand humor is the perfect match for DeVito's likable, offbeat portrayal of Owen's schleppy innocence. Crystal manages not only to be funny but also to be an attractive, charismatic leading...
There are only several moments when it seems obvious that Momma is DeVito's directing debut. The movie starts off at a breakneck pace that it just barely manages to maintain. But just when you think that DeVito is running out of energy, he comes up with even a sharper sight gag, or Stu Silver's script comes up with another great line...
Throw Momma From the Train is a funky, silly comedy which shows that Danny DeVito has great promise as a director of comedy. He may look like "a troll that should be hanging from a rear view mirror," but he thinks like a combination of Rod Serling and the Roadrunner...