Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throw Momma From the Train...
HITCHCOCK meets the Looney Tunes in Throw Momma From the Train, actor Danny DeVito's feature film directing debut. Momma is a bizarre, funny, offbeat romp from beginning to end, an irreverent farce inspired by the best and worst from pop culture...
Most of these visual gags are references to Hitchcock and in particular to his classic 1951 film Strangers on a Train from which the plot of the movie is partially lifted. But DeVito also has a strong instinct towards the comic hyperbole of the Three Stooges, say, or Bugs Bunny. The sound effects in the film are as exaggerated as cartoons. In one scene when Larry is scrambling to stay on a building ledge, the noise sounds like the sound Fred Flintstone's feet make when he accelerates...
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...
...Timofeyev, co-founder of the unofficial press club "Glasnost" formed earlier this year by former political prisoners and other activists, told The Associated Press by telephone that the four men were detained while boarding a train in Lvov...