Drowning Mona is a 2000 American crime comedy (often described as a dark comedy or black comedy) directed by Nick Gomez.

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Drowning Mona has only a 29% Rotten Tomatoes score from critics, and the audience rating is higher, 47%, but not high enough to say that people love it. However, it seems like there's some kind of mistake, because people on Reddit, for example, say they just love it. For many reasons.

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Picture this: a small town in upstate New York where every car is a Yugo, every resident has a grudge, and one spectacularly unpleasant woman meets her watery end in a hilariously twisted whodunit.

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"Drowning Mona" is a comedic crime mystery set in the small town of Verplanck, New York, where everyone drives a Yugo due to the city being a test market for cars.

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This story takes place in Verplank, a small town in upstate New York. Verplanck is the test market for the Yugo.

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“Drowning Mona” is a 2000 American crime comedy directed by Nick Gomez. The story revolves around the mysterious death of Mona Dearly (played by Bette Midler). This widely disliked and abrasive woman dies after her car plunges off a cliff into a river. The local police chief, Wyatt Rash (played by Danny DeVito), investigates the incident and discovers that the brakes were tampered with, leading him to suspect foul play.

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The ''Ruthless People'' dynamic duo of Bette Midler and Danny DeVito are together again in ''Drowning Mona.''

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"Drowning Mona" works like a low-rent John Waters travelogue through an upstate New York hamlet where a woman has been murdered - and everyone in town had reason to do it.

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''Bette Midler's the Wicked Witch of the West, and, boy, does she let go with both barrels.''

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