THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN

GENRE:  Crime/ Comedy
MADE:  1987
CAST:  Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Kim Greist
DIRECTOR:  Danny DeVito
WRITER:  Stu Silver

PLOT:  Owen, one of Larry's students, kills his ex-wife for him as a favor, in return Larry must kill Owen's mother.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Weekend At Bernie's, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Death To Smoochy, The War Of The Roses

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THE WAR OF THE ROSES

GENRE:  Comedy
MADE:  1989
CAST:  Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito
DIRECTOR:  Danny DeVito
WRITER:  Warren Adler, Michael Leeson

PLOT:  During a hostile divorce a married couple does everything to get the other to leave.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Secret Of My Success, Romancing The Stone, Death To Smoochy

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DEATH TO SMOOCHY

GENRE:  Comedy/ Crime
MADE:  2002
CAST:  Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener
DIRECTOR:  Danny DeVito
WRITER:  Adam Resnick

PLOT:  When the famous children's television host Rainbow Randolph is let go for receiving bribes and is replaced by do-gooder Smoochy the Rhino, Randolph plots his revenge.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Twins, The War of the Roses, Throw Momma From The Train

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ROMANCING THE STONE

GENRE:  Action/ Adventure/ Comedy
MADE:  1984
CAST:  Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito
DIRECTOR:  Robert Zemeckis
WRITER:  Diane Thomas, Lem Dobbs, Howard Franklin, Treva Silverman

PLOT:  When Romance novelist Joan Wilder gets a call from Columbia that her sister has been kidnapped she gets on the first plane out to save her.  Yes, Joan may have been a bit naive about the situation and about how simple it was going to get her sister back, but luckily for Joan she runs into rough around the edges Jack.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Blood Diamond, Indiana Jones And The Temple Doom, King Kong, Children Of Men

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ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

GENRE:  Drama
MADE:  1975
CAST:  Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito
DIRECTOR:  Milos Forman
WRITER:  Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, Ken Kesey, Dale Wasserman

PLOT:  A man enters a mental institute and plots to make terrible Nurse Ratched's work-life a living hell by using the force of the other patients.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Girl Interrupted, As Good As It Gets, American Beauty

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