Drowning Mona (2000)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Nick Gomez

Writer (WGA):

Peter Steinfeld (written by)

Release Date:

3 March 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Mystery | Comedy

Tagline:

1 murder. 460 prime suspects. Not so much of a 'who done it' as a 'who didn't'.

Plot:

When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect.

Plot Keywords:

Yugo | Beer | Humor | Drowning | Screaming

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Danny DeVito	...	Chief Wyatt Rash
Bette Midler	...	Mona Dearly
Neve Campbell	...	Ellen Rash
Jamie Lee Curtis	...	Rona Mace
Casey Affleck	...	Bobby Calzone
William Fichtner	...	Phil Dearly
Marcus Thomas	...	Jeff Dearly
Peter Dobson	...	Lt. Feege Gruber
Kathleen Wilhoite	...	Lucinda
Tracey Walter	...	Clarence
Will Ferrell	...	Cubby the Funeral Director
Paul Ben-Victor	...	Deputy Tony Carlucci
Paul Schulze	...	Deputy Jimmy D.
Mark Pellegrino	...	Murph Calzone
Raymond O'Connor	...	Father Tom Stowick

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some thematic elements, language and brief sexuality.

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #37219) | Iceland:10 (theatrical rating) | Iceland:LH (video rating) | Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:12 | Netherlands:12 | UK:12

Filming Locations:

Beacon, New York, USA

Company:

Code Entertainment

Trivia:

The first thing to appear on screen 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 early Plymouth Reliant K-cars.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Ellen Rash is talking to her father in the cafe, the ketchup she puts on her pickle disappears then reappears between shots.

Quotes:

Mona: Why'de you pull us over Feege?
Feege: Oh let me think about that Mona, you're riding on rims and you pulled an 1107 on an officer of the law. What the hell is the matter with you son? (to Jeph)
Mona: What did you hurt him for?
Feege: He's drunk!
Mona: No he aint! Its OK baby. (to Jeph.) You're gonna pay for this Feege! You just lost your lawn service pal!

Movie Connections:

References Fletch (1985)

Soundtrack:

Lazy River

Found it to be really better another time around

I gotta say from the start I was not really all into this film, and saw it as mostly a disappointment.Then one day I felt like seeing it again(I guess because I felt I should give it better, seeing how I love Neve Campbell), and I gotta say I found it to be a heck of a lot better.Unlike last time I realized what a funny and cool movie.Its sense of dark humor, and its sense of story telling is so clever.And I love how its not a huge cliché'e and how each person has a meaning and is not totally faceless.And the acting from especially that of Neve Campbell, Bette Midler, and Casey Afflek they were all so believable and were so good that you buy there performance.I will say at some points it felt plain, and it to be nothing great.Overall you should see this its very well done and very good. 8.3 out of 10 stars