Farley Granger and Robert Walker appear via archive footage from "Strangers on a Train" as Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony, respectively. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 63% based on reviews from 35 critics, with the consensus being that "Danny DeVito's direction is too broad to offer the kind of nastiness that would have made "Throw Momma from the Train" truly special, but DeVito's on-screen chemistry with co-star Billy Crystal makes this a smoothly entertaining comedy." Audiences polled by Cinemascore gave the film a C+ grade on a scale from A+ to F.