Drowning Mona Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Nick Gomez
Genres: Comedy, Crime
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Rage, jealousy, murder, and Eastern European automotive engineering combine in this offbeat black comedy. Verplanck, NY, is a small town north of Manhattan that has the dubious distinction of being the Yugo capital of America; the ill-fated import compact was first test-marketed in Verplanck, and nearly everyone in town drives one. So no one finds it unusual when a yellow Yugo is seen floating in the river, though seeing someone trapped inside is out of the ordinary. Verplanck's chief of police, Wyatt Rash (Danny_De_Vito), discovers that the deceased driver was a prominent local citizen, Mona Dearly (Bette_Midler), and the evidence suggests that Mona's death was no accident. But the investigation into Mona's murder is hampered by one rather significant detail: nearly everyone in town hated Mona and wanted her dead. She alienated her son Jeff (Marcus_Thomas) and his business partner Bobby (Casey_Affleck). Bobby's girlfriend Ellen (Neve_Campbell) (who is also Rash's daughter) is convinced that Mona would have tried to drive a wedge into their relationship. Mona's husband Phil (William_Fichtner) couldn't stand her and fell into an affair with Rona (Jamie_Lee_Curtis), the waitress at the local diner. And even Rash's sidekick, Deputy Feege (Peter_Dobson), spent too much time on the wrong end of Mona's temper to care that she's dead. Before long, the question is no longer who is a suspect, but who isn't? Drowning Mona was directed by Nick_Gomez, who earned positive notices for his independent films New_Jersey_Drive and Illtown. Mark Deming, Rovi
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