Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) on Netflix
PG-1319921h 27mActionComedyRomance
Police sergeant Joe Bomowski's mother Tutti visits from Newark, tidies his apartment, ruins his sidearm and buys him an illegal machine pistol. She witnesses a shooting tied to his case.
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Plot summary
Joe Bomowski, a Los Angeles police sergeant, phones his mother Tutti in Newark after a sting turns into a shootout. He is seeing his boss, Lieutenant Gwen Harper, who thinks the call was to another woman and breaks things off. Tutti then flies to Los Angeles to stay with him, and Joe is embarrassed as she straightens his apartment, spoils his service weapon with bleach and talks a suicidal man down from a ledge. A gun store tells her a replacement needs a waiting period, so she buys an illegal MAC-10 from a customer, Mitchell. Two men hunting the guns Mitchell stole shoot his brother, and Mitchell drives away. Tutti saw the shooting, and she keeps what she knows from Joe's rival Ross so that her son can settle the case himself.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Sylvester Stallone told Jimmy Fallon in 2014 that his rival Arnold Schwarzenegger had tricked him into starring in the film, and Schwarzenegger admitted it to Jimmy Kimmel in 2017.
