Stop! Or my mommy shoots!

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Movie
German title Stop! Or my mommy shoots!
Original title Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Roger Spottiswoode
script Blake Snyder ,
William Osborne ,
William Davies
production Todd Black ,
Michael C. Gross ,
Joe Medjuck ,
Ivan Reitman ,
Joe Wizan
music Alan Silvestri
camera Frank Tidy
cut Mark Conte ,
Lois Freeman-Fox
occupation

Stop! Or my mommy shoots! (Original title: Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot ) is an American comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode from 1992 .

action

Police Sergeant Joe Bomowski's life is turned upside down when his unpredictable mother Tutti honors him with one of her rare visits. Tutti quickly rearranges the furniture in Joe's bachelor apartment to suit her own taste and interferes in all of his affairs - which embarrasses him himself. She starts doing the housekeeping and cleaning everything she sees - including Joe's gun. He is outraged because all the black paint is off. Tutti wants to get him a new one and drives to a gun shop in a dangerous area. The seller tells her she will have to wait two weeks to get the weapon she wants. However, she needs them the same day and leaves. A strong man overhears the conversation and leads her to his "shop", which is actually a normal van , and sells her a - what she doesn't know - illegal , fully automatic weapon . As she leaves, two criminals come into a car and open fire. The arms dealer manages to escape, but his brother, who is also present, is shot. The weapon comes from a burned down warehouse, which was part of an insurance fraud - behind which a banker named Parnell is - and should be secured by his people because the serial number could identify him.

Tutti watches everything and is summoned by Joe's police department. She sees Joe's lover and boss Gwen and notices that she and her son have had a lot of arguments lately and now interferes in his love life. Joe goes insane and drives his mother to fly home again. When Joe sees the suicide note and realizes that he has overreacted, he rushes to the airport and persuades her to stay a while longer. At home, the gun dealer is waiting for Joe and informs him that there are more guns at a remote airport. Joe sets out to catch the criminals because the guns are about to be flown out of the country. However, Tutti follows him without his knowledge and becomes a hostage . Joe can stop the plane from taking off at the last moment and overwhelm most criminals. Before the police arrive, Parnell threatens them with a pistol and tries to shoot Joe. Tutti then takes a .44 Magnum from her handbag and shoots Parnell with it.

At the end of the film, Joe and his now fiancée Gwen say goodbye to Tutti at the airport. There she recognizes a criminal wanted by the police, whom Joe has to arrest immediately. Tutti's words - that the man is wanted because he killed his mother - Joe only replies with a laconic grin.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that the film was so stupid that the viewer stared at the screen and couldn't believe his eyes. There is no funny scene.

Rita Kempley wrote in the Washington Post that comedy was the worst nightmare.

The lexicon of international films wrote: “Action-comedy, which mostly only develops flat gags from the known basic idea; their possible effect is also given away by a star who is completely untalented for this role. "

Awards

The comedy received three Golden Raspberries in 1993 , the negative award for poor performance: Sylvester Stallone and Estelle Getty as actors, Blake Snyder, William Osborne and William Davies as screenwriters.

Remarks

The comedy was shot from June to August 1991 in the California cities of Los Angeles and Santa Rosa . It grossed $ 28.4 million in US cinemas and $ 42.2 million in other countries.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roger Ebert : Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot . In: suntimes.com . February 21, 1992, accessed February 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ Rita Kempley : Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot . In: washingtonpost.com . February 21, 1992, accessed February 6, 2015.
  3. ↑ stop! Or my mommy shoots! in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on February 6, 2015 Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  4. ↑ box office results. In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved February 6, 2015.