History Film / StopOrMyMomWillShoot

[[caption-width-right:270: Creator/EstelleGetty [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou Is About To Shoot You!]]]]

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->''"[M]aybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we've never seen."''
-->-- '''Sylvester Stallone''''s blurb on the film

This film is considered to be one of the low points of Stallone's film career and, as the quote above demonstrates, is a source of OldShame for him.
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** Joe himself is almost just as bad, leaving his gun belt in his laundry instead of locking it up, especially when his overbearing mother is visiting.

[[caption-width-right:270: Estelle Getty [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou Is About To Shoot You]]!]]

-->--'''Sylvester Stallone''''s blurb on the film

Sgt. Joseph Andrew "Joe" Bomowski (Creator/SylvesterStallone) is a tough UsefulNotes/LosAngeles 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 (Creator/EstelleGetty from ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'') pays him a surprise visit from Newark.

From the second she sets foot off the plane, she's driving him 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 she cleans the barrel of his 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. In the process, she 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 insists on accompanying as he investigates it, to his even greater chagrin.

This 1992 comedy is considered to be one of the low points of Stallone's film career, and as the quote above demonstrates is a source of OldShame for him.

* LuckyTranslation: The Latin American Spanish title of the movie managed to get a very lucky pun on the title of the movie: ¡'''Para''', o mi mamá dis'''para'''!. On the other hand, the European Spanish one translated the title as ''¡Alto! O mi madre dispara'' (Stop! Or my ''Mother'' Will Shoot) which uses a more polite version of the same phrase.

** Joe himself is almost just as bad, leaving his gun belt in his laundry instead of locking it up, especially when is overbearing mother is visiting.

* SmallParentHugeChild: According to IMDb, muscular Sylvester Stallone, who plays the police sergeant main character, is 5'9.5", fairly average height, yes. But, his overbearing mother is played by petite Estelle Getty who was a full 11 inches shorter than him at 4'10.5".

* BerserkButton: Threaten Joe's mother, and you'll be lucky if [[Swirlie getting your head shoved down a toilet's]] the worst thing that happens to you.