Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot is a 1992 American buddy-cop action-comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Sylvester Stallone and Estelle Getty. The film was released in the United States on February 21, 1992. The film received highly negative reviews upon release but grossed $70.6 million worldwide.

The film is generally considered a lesser film in Stallone's catalog. In 2006, in response to a question about the films Stallone regretted starring in, this film was the first one he mentioned.

Plot

After a successful sting-operation-turned-shootout, LAPD Sergeant Joe Bomowski tries to call his elderly mother, Tutti, at home in Newark, New Jersey. He is dating his superior, Lieutenant Gwen Harper, who accuses him of calling another woman and ends their relationship. His mother arrives in Los Angeles for a visit, and Joe is mortified by the well-meaning but overbearing Tutti, who embarrasses him even while talking a suicidal man off a ledge.

Disapproving of Joe's bachelor life, Tutti tidies up his apartment and ruins his sidearm with bleach. She visits a gun store to buy a replacement only to learn there is a mandatory "cooling off" period, and another customer, Mitchell, and his brother sell her an illegal MAC-10 machine pistol instead. Shady businessman J. Parnell has sent his henchmen, Paulie and Munroe, to recover guns stolen by Mitchell, who drives off after they open fire and kill his brother.