Drowning Mona is a 2000 comedy-mystery starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly, a spiteful, loud-mouthed, cruel and around the town highly unpopular woman, who drove her son's Yugo off the cliff and drowned in the river.
This film was the antithesis of DeVito and Midler's previous film together, Ruthless People, one of the biggest box office successes...
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Drowning Mona is a 2000 comedy-mystery starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly, a spiteful, loud-mouthed, cruel and around the town highly unpopular woman, who drove her son's Yugo off the cliff and drowned in the river.
This film was the antithesis of DeVito and Midler's previous film together, Ruthless People, one of the biggest box office successes in movie history.
The movie's first scene shows Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) leaving her home and trying in vain to unlock her car. Her keys fit her son's car, so she takes that and drives off. In a bend, the brakes fail completely and she drives off a cliff into the Hudson River. This is observed by Clarence, who is fishing there. Cheif Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito) later observes that there are no skid marks on the road.
Neither Phil (her husband) nor Jeff (her son) seem upset when they hear about Mona's death and they are not the only ones....
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