Owen asked his friend Larry for a small favor.
Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own life, he decides to put the movie's plot into action and offers to kill Larry's ex-wife, if Larry promises to murder his mom. Before Larry gets a chance to react to the plan, it seems that Owen has already set things in motion.
Directed byDanny DeVito
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- December 11, 1987
- Budget
- $14,000,000
- Revenue
- $57,915,972
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Featuring
Cast & crew
Danny DeVito
Owen Lift
Billy Crystal
Larry Donner
Kim Greist
Beth Ryan
Anne Ramsey
Mrs. Lift
Kate Mulgrew
Margaret Donner
Branford Marsalis
Lester
Rob Reiner
Joel
Bruce Kirby
Detective DeBenedetto
Joey DePinto
Sergeant
Annie Ross
Mrs. Hazeltine
- Directed by
- Danny DeVito
- Written by
- Stu Silver
- Produced by
- Larry Brezner
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