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The Chief begins with the most obvious suspects. So when her Yugo mysteriously drives off the road and plunges into the river, local police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito) knows he’ll have a long list of suspects to pick from-a list that could even include himself. Apparently the whole community of Verplanck NY despises her. WITH: Danny DeVito (Chief Rash), Bette Midler (Mona Dearly), Neve Campbell (Ellen), Jamie Lee Curtis (Rona), Casey Affleck (Bobby), William Fichtner (Phil Dearly), Marcus Thomas (Jeff Dearly) and Peter Dobson (Feege).Somewhere, there probably are people like Mona Dearly (Bette Midler). It includes violence, angry adult language and cruelty to small animals.ĭirected by Nick Gomez written by Peter Steinfeld director of photography, Bruce Douglas Johnson edited by Richard Pearson music by Michael Tavera production designer, Richard Toyon produced by Al Corley, Bart RoseblattĪnd Eugene Musso released by cobiDestination Filmscoei. This may be an efficient way to make a comedy, but it's not heartless enough.

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The movie goes beyond antisentimentality, really. Then there's Bobby Calzone (well played Casey Affleck), Jeff's partner in a landscaping business in which Jeff's participationĬomes mostly in the form of making fun of Bobby's sensitivity, especially toward his fiancée, Ellie (Neve Campbell).Įverything in the movie is treated as an object for gags, and that includes the cast. The laughs can come fairly quickly, mostly at Jeff's expense. Having lost a hand in a way that's as mysterious as Mona's murder, Jeff is seen at one point trying to strum a guitar Marcus Thomas, who plays Mona's son, Jeff, is the film's most idiotic character. Almost everyone in 'Drowning Mona' is dumber than he needs to be, resulting in several different types of slack-jawed stumblebums. The director, Nick Gomez, is working in a much more conventionally structured narrative situation than he has in his previous pictures ('New Jersey Drive,' 'Laws of Gravity'). 'They've cornered the shooter,' he says, incredulously. He regards everything with the same intensity, including an episode of the television show 'Cops' he watches while being tongue-lashed by Jones album cover, or at the very least from Engelbert Humperdinck. He must have taken his ladykiller look from a Tom Fichtner's hair is teased into a gruesome tumbleweed he wears one of those 70's white-guy Afros with mutton-chop sideburns obscuring the sides of his face. William Fichtner, whose turn as a voluble strong-arm cop was one of the many acting high points in last year's film 'Go,' is Three Dog Night songs have been unleashed on the soundtrack, which must have been scored by K-Tel record company.Īnd there are more bad hair days than you'd see at a monster truck rally. The real victims here are the characters, who've been impaled on their own Herculean pursuit of bad taste. Midler, his 'Ruthless People' co-star, but this time around he's the only person who didn't want the victim dead.

Leading the investigation is Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito), the constable with a keen 'Drowning Mona' is kind of a mystery, although the real mystery is that anybody cares enough to find out who killed her. (Her last name was a bad joke.) So many people in town dearly wished her dead that even in this little burg there's no shortage of suspects.įrom left, William Fichtner, Bette Midler and Marcus Thomas in Nick Gomez's comedy 'Drowning Mona.'

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(Someone may have believed that 'Hurtling Mona' wasn't as good a title.) Mona was meaner than a werewolf under a full moon she drewīlood every time she opened her mouth. Mona is sent to her doom in a brakeless Yugo launched off a mountain road. The eyes, 'Mona' is a dreary crash of malapropisms and slapstick maimings wrapped very loosely around a murder mystery.

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A series of crude shots - some of which are very funny - that pop the small cast of yokels right between Hue of the Yugos that dot the front yards of Verplanck, the tiny upstate New York town where the movie is set. N 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 `Drowning Mona': Caution: Falling Yugo Zone AheadįILM REVIEW `Drowning Mona': Caution: Falling Yugo Zone Ahead

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