Drowning Mona

Name: Drowning Mona
Genre: Mystery, Comedy, Crime
Released: March 3, 2000
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 25
Cast: Bette Midler, Danny DeVito

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Columbia TriStar | Release Date: March 3, 2000 | PG-13

Starring: Bette Midler, Danny DeVito

Summary: When a woman named Mona (Midler) drives her son's car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a potential suspect.

Director: Nick Gomez

Genre(s): Mystery, Comedy, Crime

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 96 min

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Jay Carr

Executed on a pretty broad level, but if characterization is slighted, the ensemble is so rich, with such depth, that every few minutes another juicy turn keeps coming our way to divert us. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Tasteless but sporadically uproarious black comedy.

Lisa Schwarzbaum

The actors more eager to goof around in schlumpfy costumes on a low-budget lark than to play their trashy characters with the seriousness such farce requires. Read full review

Jami Bernard

Excuse me, but didn't Bette Midler already play this role? Read full review

Manohla Dargis

The only vaguely funny moments are courtesy William Fichtner, as the dead woman's husband, and Jamie Lee Curtis in full metal drag as his furtive squeeze. Read full review

David Edelstein

The script plays goofy games, stopping the action for Tarantino-style small talk; piling on alternate, "Rashomon"-style flashbacks; and divulging its characters' secrets in no particular order. Read full review

A.O. Scott

A dreary crash of malapropisms and slapstick maimings wrapped very loosely around a murder mystery. Read full review

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BerthaFox-D.

Sep 15, 2005

This is a hillarious movie. It took a couple of viewings before I "got" it, but it's a great film. It reminds me of the Bonnie Bakely trial. The woman was so despised that anyone who came in contact with her could have been culpable! Jamie Lee Curtis steals the show as a greasy spoon This is a hillarious movie. It took a couple of viewings before I "got" it, but it's a great film. It reminds me of the Bonnie Bakely trial. The woman was so despised that anyone who came in contact with her could have been culpable! Jamie Lee Curtis steals the show as a greasy spoon waitress who is having an affair with Mona's husband AND son! Worth seeing for sure!… Expand

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Apr 30, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The first thing to appear onscreen is a little blurb about the Yugo car company using the town of Verplanck as a test area for their new model years ago. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons.… Expand

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metaldad2112

Feb 27, 2017

Imagine a Movie with Devito, Midler, Casey Affleck, Will Ferrell being anything but terrific & so it is ~ It takes a 2nd View for the snark condescension to sink in but once understood your also "Drowning Mona" & in search of a Classic (YUGO?) It Takes more twists & Turns so the need to viewImagine a Movie with Devito, Midler, Casey Affleck, Will Ferrell being anything but terrific & so it is ~ It takes a 2nd View for the snark condescension to sink in but once understood your also "Drowning Mona" & in search of a Classic (YUGO?) It Takes more twists & Turns so the need to view is more the merrier making Mona addicting (Yes My First view a 2 at best having left it disgusted) With several revisits it's now a #9 much like a "Say it isn't so" "Zoolander" or "Ruthless People" This is a Must to be watched more over than once ... Get a Slice of the lowest of middle class church going sleaze of Middle America at it'z damn funniest best ! There is no Message or guide in this movie intending to redirect your life (No Feel good Kumbaya) Rather a visit to the covered in dirt Back-Yard ~ U Don't get it ... (2 SHAME!)… Expand

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