

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.
ComedyCrimeThrillerwriter's blocktrainoverbearing motherex-wifeaspiring writermystery writercrime fiction writerdominant mothermurder swap
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Cast
- Danny DeVitoOwen Lift
- Billy CrystalLarry Donner
- Kim GreistBeth Ryan
- Anne RamseyMrs. Lift
- Kate MulgrewMargaret Donner
- Branford MarsalisLester
- Rob ReinerJoel
- Bruce KirbyDetective DeBenedetto
- Joey DePintoSergeant
- Annie RossMrs. Hazeltine
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- Danny DeVitoDirector
- Stu SilverWriter
- Barry SonnenfeldDirector of Photography
- David NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Michael JablowEditor
- Larry BreznerProducer
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