Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
| Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot | |
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| Directed by | Roger Spottiswoode |
| Produced by |
Ivan Reitman Joe Medjuck Michael C. Gross |
| Written by |
Blake Snyder William Osborne William Davies |
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| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
| Cinematography | Frank Tidy |
| Edited by | Mark Conte Lois Freeman-Fox |
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Northern Lights Entertainment
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time
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87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $45 million |
| Box office | $70,611,210 |
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot is a 1992 American buddy cop comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode. The film stars Sylvester Stallone and Estelle Getty. The film was released in the United States on February 21, 1992.
In 2006, Stallone said that this was the worst movie he ever did and that he regretted making the film.
Joe Bomowski (Sylvester Stallone) is a tough cop. When his seemingly frail mother Tutti (Estelle Getty) comes to stay with him and progressively interferes in his life, it drives him crazy. After cleaning his gun with bleach and finding out she ruined it, she buys him an illegal MAC-10 machine pistol, where she witnesses the murder of one of the men that sells her the gun. While taken to the police station, she refuses to work with and starts poking around in his police cases. The gun purchased was part of a collection taken from a burned building, and the gun insurance money was received.
At the end, when Tutti is going back home, she recognizes a man at the airport. After he flees, Joe and Tutti follow him, where Tutti remembers that she saw him on America's Most Wanted for shooting his mother.
The film received extremely negative reviews, and has a 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 23 reviews. The Washington Post called it "" but stated that "the concept is actually better for Stallone than the premises of his earlier awful romps, Rhinestone and Oscar."Clifford Terry wrote in the Chicago Tribune that the film "plays like an extended sitcom-perhaps four episodes of She's the Sheriff" and also that "About two-thirds into Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, Sylvester Stallone actually delivers the title line. That's how numbingly awful this is. Give it half a star for being in focus." The film found more success on VHS and DVD.
Both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert aggressively disliked the film and both gave it a thumbs down in their onscreen review of the film, with Ebert claiming it to have been "one of the worst movies he'd ever seen"; in his newspaper review, Ebert labeled it as "one of those movies so dimwitted, so utterly lacking in even the smallest morsel of redeeming value, that you stare at the screen in stunned disbelief. It is moronic beyond comprehension, an exercise in desperation during which even Sylvester Stallone, a repository of self-confidence, seems to be disheartened." Siskel stated that "if the script of this picture were submitted to The Golden Girls television show staff it would be summarily dismissed as too flimsy for a half-hour sitcom. There is not one laugh nor surprising moment to be found, starting with the scene where Stallone and Getty happen upon a jumper atop a building and Getty manages to bring the man down safely using a bullhorn."
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