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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Detective Joe Bomowski's mom is in town for a visit. She did the laundry, washed the windows and scrubbed the floors. Now, she's gonna clean up the streets.

19925.31h 27m

Overview

A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.

Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Written by Blake Snyder, William Osborne, William Davies
Produced by Michael C. Gross, Joe Medjuck, Ivan Reitman
Box Office0Revenue: $70.6M

Top Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone

Sgt. Joseph Andrew 'Joe' Bomowski

Estelle Getty

Estelle Getty

Tutti Bomowski

JoBeth Williams

JoBeth Williams

Lt. Gwen Harper

Roger Rees

Roger Rees

Parnell

Martin Ferrero

Martin Ferrero

Paulie

Gailard Sartain

Gailard Sartain

Munroe

John Wesley

John Wesley

Tony

Al Fann

Al Fann

Lou

Ella Joyce

Ella Joyce

McCabe

J. Kenneth Campbell

J. Kenneth Campbell

Ross

Themes & Keywords

policesubmachine gungunfightlos angeles, californiacriminalbuddy cop1990sstreet shootout

About Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot is a action, comedy film released in 1992 exploring themes of police, submachine gun, gunfight, los angeles, california, criminal, buddy cop. Directed by Roger Spottiswoode, it stars Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams. A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.

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