One of my favorite all-time movies must be Throw Mama From the Train. I remember watching it in the theater in Marinette when it was first released and have taken every opportunity to rewatch it in the decades since. If you haven’t watched it, the basic movie summary (taken from Wikipedia) is:
Novelist Larry Donner (Billy Crystal) struggles with writer's block due to his resentment towards his ex-wife Margaret (Kate Mulgrew), who took all the credit for his manuscript and received acclaim for it, while Larry, struggling to make ends meet, takes a job teaching literature at a community college. Owen Lift (Danny DeVito) is a timid, middle-aged man who still lives with his overbearing, harsh and paranoid mother (Anne Ramsey). Owen fantasizes about killing his mother but can't summon the courage to bring his desires to fruition.
If you’ve watched the movie as many times as I have, you can probably get the information to solve this without looking anything up. Otherwise, they are all readily available online.
A: How many hundred girls are featured in the coffee table book?
B: Number of times Owen attempts to kill Margaret
C: Number of police officers investigating Margaret’s death
D: Decade digit + the year digit of the year the Hitchcock movie that inspired this movie
E: Number of successful murders in the movie
F: Number of times Larry attempts to kill Owen’s Momma
G: The number of coins in Owen’s coin collection, + the number of types of teas Owen offers the police
H: Number of letters in the name of Owen’s visiting ‘Cousin’ -1
I: The number of miniature Momma’s at the bowling alley - 2
J: Number of words in Owen’s book title + Number of words in Larry’s book title – 3
FUDGE FACTOR: There seems to be a difference of .001 in the N coordinates I have listed on the cache page (and used to genereate the clues/solution) and the number I typed into the check linked below. Please subtract .001 from your answer above and the checker should work.
This is my 400th hide and one of my favorite locations in Wisconsin for one of my hides (despite the graffiti). As light hearted as this puzzle and the movie that inspired it are, the location can be very serious. People have died here. You should not be in any harm as you look for this cache, but take care to stay away from ledges and watch for icy or slippery surfaces.
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