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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.
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...
- (78)
- 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. Props to Casey Affleck to doing a good job.
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 ...
Drowning Mona: Directed by Nick Gomez. With Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis. When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect.
- (16K)
- Comedy, Crime, Mystery
- Nick Gomez
- 2000-03-03
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...
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A dreary crash of malapropisms and slapstick maimings wrapped very loosely around a murder mystery. Metacritic aggregates music, game, tv, and movie reviews from the leading critics. Only Metacritic.com uses METASCORES, which let you know at a glance how each item was reviewed.