Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)

Director:

Roger Spottiswoode

Writers (WGA):

Blake Snyder (written by) and
William Osborne (written by) ...

Release Date:

21 February 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy

Tagline:

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.

Plot:

A tough detective's mother comes to visit him and begins to meddle in his life and career.

Plot Keywords:

Mother | Gun | Police | Police Officer | Towel

Awards:

3 wins

Cast

Sylvester Stallone	...	Sgt. Joe Bomowski
Estelle Getty	...	Tutti Bomowski
JoBeth Williams	...	Lt. Gwen Harper
Roger Rees	...	Parnell
Martin Ferrero	...	Paulie
Gailard Sartain	...	Munroe
John Wesley	...	Tony
Al Fann	...	Lou
Ella Joyce	...	McCabe
J. Kenneth Campbell	...	Det. Ross
Nicholas Sadler	...	Suicide
Dennis Burkley	...	Mitchell
Ving Rhames	...	Mr. Stereo
Jana Arnold	...	Mitchell's Girl
Chris Latta	...	Gang Member (as Christopher Collins)

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #31636) | Iceland:L | South Korea:15 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Finland:K-14 | Germany:12 | Spain:T | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

1st Street Viaduct, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Northern Lights Entertainment

Trivia:

Sylvester Stallone considers this the worst film he's ever done.

Quotes:

Joe Brofmowski: Mom, what're you doing here?
Tutti Bomowski: I've got to change you.
Joe Brofmowski: [looks down and realizes he's wearing a diaper] Mommy! I don't want to be changed.
Tutti Bomowski: [holding up diapers and baby powder] I've got to change you.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Judge Dredd (1995)

Soundtrack:

Undecided

Stop or Else there will Be a Sequel

I'm a self-admitted lover of cheese films: in other words, I am a cinematic masochist with a threshold for celluloid pain that would give Ah-nold's Terminator a run for the money, but 'Stop, or my Mom will Shoot' is painful in a way that a shot of morphine, a handful of codeine, and a dozen shots of whiskey cannot overcome.

Speaking of the Terminator, there are very few stars whose careers could survive a beating like the one dished out by 'Stop, or my Mom will Shoot', but Stallone survived long enough to resurrect his career with Demolition Man and Cliffhanger. The rest of the cast was not so fortunate, and since then has only been seen on milk cartons under the caption, "Have you seen me?".

Imagine my disappointment in finding that this turkey managed, somehow, to escape the bottom 100 list, despite being widely acknowledged as one of the worst attempts at comedy since Police Academy 6. That this steaming pile rates a 3.1 makes me question whether or not the online voters have been subjected to lobotomies or their minds were so severely damaged by this film that they are no longer capable of making sound decisions.