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.

• DirectorDanny DeVito
• Release11 December 1987
• Genre
  Comedy / Crime
• Duration1h 28m
• Budget$14,000,000
• Revenue$57,915,972
• Rate
  

  6.174
  609 reviews
• Productions

  Orion Pictures