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Other than that, this town is not known for anything special. It does have a police force that drive Yugo's. If that isn't funny in itself, then be ready for lots more funny situations. If you can laugh about situations concerning death then you will get many more laughs with DROWNING MONA. Mona Dearly is excellently played as a nasty shrew of a woman by Bette Midler. It seems one day she went out and her Yugo ended up in the river. She dies. Oh yeah, she dies at the beginning of the movie so obviously we will see lots of flashbacks. No one even cares, not the towns people and not her husband, Phil Dearly (William Fichtner) or her son, Jeff Dearly (Marcus Thomas). Since she liked to yell, scream and pound people with various instuments, most everyone found it fairly fortuitous that she passed on. No one cared except the town sheriff, Wyatt Rash played by Danny DeVito.  We have the husband, we have the son with one hand (many stories will explain what happened to his hand, and they are all funny); we have the mistress, Rona, The Waitress played by a rough looking Jamie Lee Curtis; we have Bobby Calzone (Casey Affleck) who is Jeff Dearly's partner; and we have a mysterious stranger. Ooops wrong movie there is no mysterious stranger. Wow, how could I forget Neve Campbell. She plays the sheriff's daughter Ellen. Ellen finds Mona's death hillarious until Bobby, her husband to be, becomes a suspect. The plot unfolds as it bounces from one joke to another as the Sheriff slowly puts everything together. DROWNING MONA is not the greatest flick around but I do recommend it highly. It has good acting by the excellent cast; lots of good humour and a decent plot that moves along nicely all the way to the end. This is obviously a small film put together as a labour of love by the actors. Bette Midler playing the mean spirited Mona is worth the price alone. Catch it when it come to town. No, even though Jamie Lee Curtis is the adulterous waitress, she has no nude scenes. Damn. |
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RATING CANADA... Rated Rated PG for language and brief sexuality (no nudity) |
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