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Drowning Mona (2000)

Drowning Mona poster
Directed by
Nick Gomez
Genre
comedy film, action film, mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 189 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A small-town police chief investigates the death of a universally hated woman after her car goes into a river. Everyone in town had a reason to want her gone, so suspects are plentiful.

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What happens

Drowning Mona is a 2000 American crime comedy film starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly (Bette Midler), a spiteful, hard-drinking, loud-mouthed, abusive woman, hated by all who knew her, who drove her son's car off a cliff and drowned in a river. The film received negative reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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