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Drowning
Mona is a pointless and horrific dark comedy. Nothing much
really ever happens in the little town of Verplanck. There
are more landscapers than land and everyone drives a Yugo.
Then one day, the mean and grumpy Mona Dearly (Midler) drives
her Yugo into the river to her death. The whole incident looks
like an accident, but in fact her death wasn't an accident.
Somebody in Verplanck wanted Mona dead. Now, Police chief
Wyatt Rash (DeVito) has a duty to find out who killed Mona.
However, Wyatt begins to learn that everyone in town had something
against Mona Dearly. Wyatt keeps asking himself, " Who would
want Mona dead?" the answer is everybody.
Drowning
Mona is a once again another failed dark comedy that had no
purpose of ever being made. The movie becomes a complete waste
of the distributor's money and my time.
Peter
Steinfeld wrote the script for Drowning Mona. Steinfeld's
attempt is a pure failure. I just could not find anything
funny in this film. Also, the characters were stale, the story
itself was winded and became a complicated tornado of who
killed Mona.
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The
acting ensemble in Drowning Mona has many good actors in bad
roles. Danny DeVito, who is usually always good, becomes boring
as Wyatt. It seemed that DeVito rode around in his Yugo the
whole time he was on the screen. Neve Campbell seemed very
out of place in Drowning Mona as Wyatt's daughter, Ellen.
Bette Midler gives an overly done embarrassment of a performance
as the titles character Mona. This is probably Midler's worst
performance ever, which is suprising, because she has always
been an effective actress. The real headache of this movie
is Casey Affleck. I don't have any idea of why anyone would
want to consider this guy as an actor. (Probably because of
his brother Ben's reputation) Affleck's performance as Bobby
is really elementary. I already give him a worst actor of
the year nomination.
Drowning
Mona is a really bad film that has no motive or anything going
for it at all. I quickly became tired of seeing the characters
in the movie, the Yugos in the movie, and most all the movie
itself.
Joseph
C (Beastman) Tucker
Copyright,
2000 Joseph C. Tucker, reprinted with kind permission.
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