Throw Momma From the Train

Throw Momma From the Train - in which Billy Crystal is made to look average-sized and sane by standing next to Danny DeVito. So, Billy Crystal is an angry ex-husband who wants his successful ex wife dead. He accidentally conveys a message to a student in his creative writing class that the student should kill his ex wife for him. Owen (Danny DeVito) is tiny and adorable and earnest and is just the best, so when he goes to kill the ex wife, he seems kind of sweet and dumb. See, Crystal was giving him advice on writing a mystery novel, so he recommended Strangers on a Train, but Owen is kind of dumb, and in a lot of pain from having to live with his awful mother and not kill her every day. So, he thinks the Strangers on a Train proposition in the movie is a coded but firm message from Crystal to do each other's murders. Crisscross. He flies to Hawaii and tries to kill the ex wife, and then he calls Crystal to say he did it, and because Crystal didn't have an alibi, he flips out and goes into hiding. Oh, he has really bad writers block, and its the main thing about his character. So he ends up crashing with Owen and his momma, and Owen asks him to kill her a BUNCH of times, but Crystal really doesn't want to do a murder, so he doesn't do it. In the end, they end up trying to run away to Mexico, but the ex-wife turns up alive, so Billy Crystal isn't wanted for murder, so he goes back to his life. Now, he has a real adventure to write about, and his writer's block is cured. Owen also writes and publishes a pop-up book, and his mother dies peacefully, off camera.