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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot is a 1992 action comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Sylvester Stallone and Estelle Getty.Sgt. Joseph Andrew "Joe" Bomowski (Stallone) is a tough Los Angeles detective leading an antisocial existence. His relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and precinct supervisor Lt. Gwen Harper is on the rocks. He is thus dismayed when his meddling, mind-numbingly annoying mother Tutti (Getty) pays him a surprise visit from Newark.From the second Tutti sets foot off the plane, she's driving Joe round the bend — showing embarrassing pictures of him and telling embarrassing stories about him to everyone on the plane and at the police station, insisting he eat a three-course meal for breakfast, tucking him in and singing him a lullaby at night, and generally treating him as though he's seven years old.When Tutti cleans the barrel of Joe's gun with a pipe cleaner and thus ruins it, she heads to the hood to buy him a new one. Failing to get one legitimately from a gun store, she buys one illegally, and in the process witnesses a homicide. She gives false information to the police about the homicide, instead letting Joe take the case on all by himself so he can get a promotion, to his chagrin. She then insists on accompanying as he investigates it, to his even greater chagrin.
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Artistic License – Gun Safety
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Artistic License – Gun Safety: Tutti washes Joe's gun like it's a dish, ruining it, and playfully wakes him up by pointing it at him. Joe himself is almost just as bad, leaving his gun in his laundry instead of locking it up, especially when his overbearing mother is visiting.
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Played to a "T", embarrassing old photos and everything.
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Small Parent, Huge Child
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Small Parent, Huge Child: According to IMDb, muscular Sylvester Stallone, who plays Joe is 5'9½, fairly average height, yes. But his mother Tutti is played by petite Estelle Getty who was a full 11 inches shorter than him at 4'10½.
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene: The most dead-serious moment of the film, aside from the action sequences of the climax, is when Tutti reminisces with Joe's girlfriend of the time Joe's father died and Joe (still in his early teens, and with Tutti too distraught to be of help) single-handedly arranged the funeral, even being one of the pallbearers, and never shed a tear.
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Title Drop: Stallone says "Stop! Or my mom will shoot!" during a shootout at a warehouse.
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Talking Down the Suicidal
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Talking Down the Suicidal: Tutti manages to do this early on in the film, much to Joe's chagrin, when she comes to the scene a of suicide jumper who wishes to speak with his mother.
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Obstructive Vigilantism
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Obstructive Vigilantism: The titular mom is not telling all the details so that her son can investigate.
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Reckless Gun Usage
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Reckless Gun Usage: After an evening of horribly misguided attempted gun maintenance, Tutti wakes up her son by pointing the gun at his face and saying "Go ahead...make your bed."
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Never Mess with Granny
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Never Mess with Granny: Tutti shoots a handgun twice during the film. The first time (which provides the Title Drop threat) she can't hit anything. The second time she goes full Dirty Harry Mama Bear during a Hostage Situation.
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Karma Houdini: Tutti doesn't get arrested for buying an illegal fire arm, withholding information of a shooting, and repeatedly intruding on a police investigation.
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Imagine Spot
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Imagine Spot: Joe imagining his mother come after him with a huge pack of diapers and an oversized bottle of talcum powder.
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My Beloved Smother
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My Beloved Smother: The whole plot is Joe getting increasingly exasperated about his mother trying to control his life and "help" him by putting him in trouble with the review board (he already had some because of being a Cowboy Cop, but Tutti's meddling makes things worse).
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Threaten Joe's mother, and you'll be lucky if getting your head shoved down a toilet's the worst thing that happens to you.
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Cringe Comedy
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Cringe Comedy: Plenty of it, considering the direction they choose to take the plot in. For example, there's one particularly cringeworthy line comes from a flight attendant who had just seen Tutti's album of Joe as an infant.
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Rage Breaking Point
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Rage Breaking Point: Joe was already angry because of his mother ridiculing him, hardships with the case (some brought out because of said mother), and so on... and then the jerkass Internal Affairs officer that holds a grudge on Joe snarks that Tutti deserves to go to jail. Joe smashes his nose in without hesitation.
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Insurance Fraud: Turns out that the weapons were part of a shipment that was allegedly destroyed by a fire — the Big Bad's idea was to report them as lost, pocket the insurance money, and get more by selling them on the black market. He didn't expected a couple of idiots to take a few and sell them out the back of their van, though.
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