| Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot | |
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| Directed by | Roger Spottiswoode |
| Produced by | Ivan Reitman[1] Joe Medjuck Michael C. Gross |
| Written by | Blake Snyder William Osborne William Davies |
| Starring | Sylvester Stallone Estelle Getty JoBeth Williams Roger Rees John Wesley Ving Rhames |
| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
| Cinematography | Frank Tidy |
| Editing by | Mark Conte Lois Freeman-Fox |
| Studio | Northern Lights Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | February 21, 1992 |
| Running time | 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 action comedy film written by Blake Snyder, William Osborne and William Davies, directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Sylvester Stallone and Estelle Getty.
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A tough cop's (Sylvester Stallone) seemingly frail mother (Estelle Getty) comes to stay with him and progressively interferes in his life. She buys him an illegal MAC-10 machine pistol and starts poking around in his police cases. Eventually, the film draws to a denouement involving the title of the film and the revelation that even though she seems frail and weak she is capable of strong actions in some circumstances, i.e. when her son is threatened by a criminal and she shoots him in the shoulder.
The film received extremely negative reviews and retains a 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 23 reviews.”[2][3][4] The film retained a cult following and found more success on DVD[5], even before Stallone claimed it was the worst film he ever made.[6]
It was also the winner of three Golden Raspberry Awards for Stallone as Worst Actor, Getty as Worst Supporting Actress and the film earning Worst Screenplay. The film was mentioned when Stallone hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in 1997; in one particular skit Stallone comes across someone in a terrible car accident (Norm Macdonald) who does not like any of his work and ridicules his films. As he lays dying, he mutters something quietly that only Stallone can hear, and when a passerby (Will Ferrell) asks what he said, Stallone is reluctant to say it until he is grilled some more, in which he virulently yells "He said 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot"...SUCKED!"
Despite the poor reviews, the film was somewhat successful at the box office. The film brought in only $28.6 million domestically but did a little better overseas with over $42 million internationally to a total of $70.6 million worldwide. Stallone bought several Volkswagen Jetta automobiles with the money.
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