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	Release Date: 3/03/2000


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Drowning Mona

Rating:

Reviewed by:
Jess Myer

Not even an army of Hollywood stars—Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Neve Campbell—can save Mona from dying a well-deserved death. This humorless flop falls about 100 yards short of black comedy, and the jokes stink even worse than the corpse in question. After trailer-trash diva Mona Dearly (Midler) drives her Yugo off a cliff; small-town police chief Wyatt Rash (DeVito) discovers her watery death was no accident. Since every last resident of Verplanck, New York hated the old bag, everyone’s a suspect. As DeVito investigates, the rest of the inbred characters start knocking each other off, sorta like a Tarantino version of The Andy Griffith Show. Oh, and this is a comedy.

Highlight? Jamie Lee Curtis’ 1984 hockey haircut. Lowlight? Everything else. Whodunit? Who cares—we find career-challenged director Nick Gomez (Laws of Gravity) guilty of attempted satire.