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Drowning Mona

  • 20002000
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 36m
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Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny DeVito, and Bette Midler in Drowning Mona (2000)
Theatrical Trailer from Destination Films
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When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect.When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect.When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect.
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
15K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,975
3,010
    • Nick Gomez
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  • Stars
    • Danny DeVito
    • Bette Midler
    • Neve Campbell
    • Nick Gomez
    • Peter Steinfeld
  • Stars
    • Danny DeVito
    • Bette Midler
    • Neve Campbell
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 170User reviews
    • 33Critic reviews
    • 25Metascore
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    Drowning Mona
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    Bette Midler, William Fichtner, and Marcus Thomas in Drowning Mona (2000)
    Neve Campbell in Drowning Mona (2000)
    Casey Affleck in Drowning Mona (2000)
    Jamie Lee Curtis in Drowning Mona (2000)
    Bette Midler in Drowning Mona (2000)
    Danny DeVito in Drowning Mona (2000)
    Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny DeVito, Casey Affleck, Paul Ben-Victor, Mark Pellegrino, and Paul Schulze in Drowning Mona (2000)
    Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, and Mark Pellegrino in Drowning Mona (2000)
    Casey Affleck and Will Ferrell in Drowning Mona (2000)
    Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, and Casey Affleck in Drowning Mona (2000)
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    Neve Campbell in Drowning Mona (2000)

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    Danny DeVito
    Danny DeVito
    • Chief Rash
    Bette Midler
    Bette Midler
    • Mona Dearly
    Neve Campbell
    Neve Campbell
    • Ellen
    Jamie Lee Curtis
    Jamie Lee Curtis
    • Rona
    Casey Affleck
    Casey Affleck
    • Bobby
    William Fichtner
    William Fichtner
    • Phil Dearly
    Marcus Thomas
    Marcus Thomas
    • Jeff Dearly
    Peter Dobson
    Peter Dobson
    • Feege
    Kathleen Wilhoite
    Kathleen Wilhoite
    • Lucinda
    Tracey Walter
    Tracey Walter
    • Clarence
    Will Ferrell
    Will Ferrell
    • Cubby
    Paul Ben-Victor
    Paul Ben-Victor
    • Carlucci
    Paul Schulze
    Paul Schulze
    • Jimmy D.
    Mark Pellegrino
    Mark Pellegrino
    • Murph
    Raymond O'Connor
    Raymond O'Connor
    • Father Tom
    Lisa Rieffel
    Lisa Rieffel
    • Valerie
    Robert Arce
    Robert Arce
    • Doctor Schwartz
    Brittany Peterson
    • Maria Lasala
      • Nick Gomez
      • Peter Steinfeld
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    • Trivia
      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.
    • Goofs
      Jeff's car, with Mona driving, has no working brakes. When Mona backs out, we do not see brake lights come on, and the sound implies she uses the clutch to stop the car and go forward, thus never using the brakes.
    • Quotes

      Chief Wyatt Rash: My mother always used to say, "When life hands you potatoes, make potato salad!"

      Mona Dearly: Yeah? Well life handed me a whole pile a' shit! What am I supposed to make outta that?

      Phil Dearly: Shit salad?

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Drowning Mona/My Dog Skip/What Planet Are You From?/The Next Best Thing/Miss Julie (2000)
    • Soundtracks
      Never Been to Spain
      Written by Hoyt Axton

      Performed by Three Dog Night

      Courtesy of MCA Records

    User reviews170

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    This film is much better than the actors seem to think....
    Why are people so hard on Drowning Mona? I just saw it and enjoyed it a lot. In years to come I believe it will be seen as the same genre as The Good Girl - an attempt to bring very ordinary people to life without apologizing for their ordinariness. In A Good Girl, Jennifer Aniston works very hard to portray an ordinary, poorly-educated young woman in a dead-end job. She has to really work hard to suppress the natural intelligence of a very bright mind and make her ordinary girl sufficiently dumb. But she does it beautifully. In Drowning Mona - portraying Bobby Calzone, Casey `Affleck has a similar challenge. I think he creates his character brilliantly. I am so shocked to find higher up this page that Casey is ashamed of his work on this movie. Can this be true? It seems quite possible - on my DVD package he is the only major cast-member who doesn't give an interview. Casey is handsome and delightful but he manages to leave an impression of terminal dumbness. All the guy wants is to make a reasonable living fixing gardens, but his problems seem insurmountable and it's getting to him. I get the feeling that none of the cast were stirred or excited with Drowning Mona - you need to see the on-set interviews to judge this. Nevertheless it is a successful little film in its own terms and has a lot of gentle humor in it. Affleck, deVito, Midler, Lee Curtis do a very professional ensemble piece as you would expect. As a former copywriter I find the landscaping company slogan hysterically funny: J & B Landscaping - `Yeah, we can do that'. I get the impression the whole cast read through a rather 'thin' script and said exactly that.
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    • Release date
      • March 3, 2000 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Santa Clarita, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Code Entertainment
      • Jersey Shore
      • Marigold Productions Inc.
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    • 1 hour 36 minutes
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