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Drowning Mona Details

2000 Certificate 12
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Mona Dearly is an unpopular woman who dies driving off a cliff after the brakes have failed. The local police chief suspects foul play and tries to contain the whole town... Read more

Starring Danny De Vito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis
Director Nick Gomez
Genres Drama

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Drowning Mona

Mona Dearly is an unpopular woman who dies driving off a cliff after the brakes have failed. The local police chief suspects foul play and tries to contain the whole town...

Starring Danny De Vito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck
Director Nick Gomez
Studio HOLLYWOOD DVD LTD
Run time DVD: 1 hr 36 mins
Certificate Certificate 12
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 20 May 2002
Production year: 2000
Format DVD

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    This lame comedy starts out in a promising fashion by having Bette Midler killed during the opening credits. Alas, it then quickly goes downhill. Police chief Danny DeVito is dealing with a much bigger mystery than discovering who offed Midler, the most hated resident of Verplanck, NY: he has to find someone who didn't want her dead. Nick Gomez's movie wants to be a quirky black farce, but ends up more like an episode of White Trash Family Feud. You want to be amused by these characters, but they're just too stupid to be funny.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Great laugh!!!

    If you loved Serial Mom, you will love this. Great black comedy, great one liners, superb characters that are a cross between a John Walters movie and Woody Allen's creativity. Bette Midler plays a battleaxe that dies in the first scene, but as all the characters in the town have had run-ins with her - they are all suspects for her murder! Great plot, rather silly, but great laugh. I definitely recommend and really lifted my spirits.

      • SimonRB from Camberwell
      • Posted 18 Feb 2009 22:36

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  • 0 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    poor

    very bad unfunny comedy...the stars in this did not shine. too much shouting not enough laughs

      • shaunny from York
      • Posted 16 Oct 2008 20:18

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