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Mar 3, 2000 · In the pulpy comedy ''Drowning Mona,'' Bette Midler, as Mona Dearly, looks a mess, with a dye job the color of Tang, similar to the faded taffy hue of the Yugos that dot the front yards of ...
- Nick Gomez
Everything in the movie is treated as an object for gags, and that includes the cast. The movie goes beyond antisentimentality, really. This may be an efficient way to make a comedy, but it's not heartless enough. "Drowning Mona" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes violence, angry adult language and cruelty to small animals.
Mar 3, 2000 · Almost everyone in town is a suspect. As played in flashbacks by Midler, Mona is a ferocious harridan who may have hacked off her own son's hand just because he was trying to snatch her beer. There are, to be fair, other theories about how Jeff ( Marcus Thomas) lost his hand, although in every scenario he was reaching for a beer. Jeff might ...
Brogan 7 March 2000. Everybody hates Mona Dearly, and who could blame them. Mona (Bette Midler) is rude, loud, cruel, and another word for "female dog." Then something happens, Mona dies in a car accident, and town sheriff Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito) found out that Mona was murdered, and who would kill her.
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Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) is a cranky, unlikable slob whose own son and husband fear and detest her. When her brakes fail and her Yugo goes over a cliff into the Hudson River, there is little grieving in the quiet hamlet of Verplanck, New York. All in all, Mona’s death could be described as a fortuitous accident for everyone whose lives she touched. Chief Rash (Danny DeVito) soon becomes ...
Mar 6, 2000 · "Drowning Mona" boasts two of the most gifted comic talents working in movies today - Bette Midler and Danny DeVito. It strikes me as rather odd then, that one is given a surprisingly small amount of screen time, and the other seems to be sleepwalking through his role.
