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Mar 3, 2000 · As the movie opens, a local woman named Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) speeds down a country road and directly into the Hudson River when her brakes fail. It is a measure of the local intelligence that when the car and driver are dragged to shore some hours later, the doctor checks her pulse.
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A whodunnit that stacks its lists of suspects with wasted character actors, Drowning Mona is a twee farce that will prompt audiences to tune out before the mystery is solved. Read Critics...
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- Nick Gomez
- PG-13
- Danny Devito
Drowning Mona is a good comedy about the death of a woman the whole town hates. This film had its good points, but nothing to make it a memorable comedy. I liked many of the characters and the film had a great cast.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 19, 2002. Chuck Rudolph Matinee Magazine. In going out of their way to make the characters shocking and graceless, the filmmakers forgot that it's ...
Mar 3, 2000 · Mona Dearly, a spiteful, loud-mouthed, unpopular woman, dies when the car she is driving plunges off a cliff and into a river near the small upstate New York town where she lives. Wyatt Rash, the local police chief, investigates and suspects foul play in Mona's death.
- (16K)
- Comedy, Crime, Mystery
- Nick Gomez
- 2000-03-03
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 29% based on 78 reviews, and an average rating of 4.4/10. The critical consensus reads, "A whodunnit that stacks its list of suspects with wasted character actors, Drowning Mona is a twee farce that will prompt audiences to tune out before the mystery is solved." Box office
Feb 25, 2000 · By Todd McCarthy. “Drowning Mona” is a white-trash black comedy, a caustic working-class whodunit in which the solution to the murder mystery takes a distant back seat to countless barbs and...
