Everybody hated Mona (Bette Midler). Now she´s dead. After a car accident, she drowned in the river. Was it really an accident? Everybody could have a motive. Who was it - and who not? Sheriff Rash (Danny de Vito) investigates.
"Drowning Mona" wasn´t a big box-office hit in the USA. A possible cause why its release in Germany was pushed from date to date. I first feared that it would come out as a video-premiere. More than one year after its release in the USA it finally started in the German theaters. I often read that it is compared with "Ruthless people" - also starring Danny de Vito and Bette Midler. I would rather compare it to the Coen brother´s "Fargo" - in my opinion, a satire about life in the province. Verplanck, USA: a boring, little town of philistine people, where everybody knows each other and talks about each other. I can relate to it, I live in such a town. It´s terrible, most of the time! That´s why this movie kept me laughing all the way through - it was like a therapy for me!
One weak point: sometimes, during the flashbacks, director Nick Gomez loses the storyline out of his hands. Maybe "Drowning Mona" isn´t as cynical as "Fargo", but the fine cast - besides de Vito and Midler; Jamie Lee Curtis and Neve Campbell - can save it from drowning.
A solid black comedy that is good for some big laughs and shortens the waiting time until the next Coen brother´s flick.
"Drowning Mona" wasn´t a big box-office hit in the USA. A possible cause why its release in Germany was pushed from date to date. I first feared that it would come out as a video-premiere. More than one year after its release in the USA it finally started in the German theaters. I often read that it is compared with "Ruthless people" - also starring Danny de Vito and Bette Midler. I would rather compare it to the Coen brother´s "Fargo" - in my opinion, a satire about life in the province. Verplanck, USA: a boring, little town of philistine people, where everybody knows each other and talks about each other. I can relate to it, I live in such a town. It´s terrible, most of the time! That´s why this movie kept me laughing all the way through - it was like a therapy for me!
One weak point: sometimes, during the flashbacks, director Nick Gomez loses the storyline out of his hands. Maybe "Drowning Mona" isn´t as cynical as "Fargo", but the fine cast - besides de Vito and Midler; Jamie Lee Curtis and Neve Campbell - can save it from drowning.
A solid black comedy that is good for some big laughs and shortens the waiting time until the next Coen brother´s flick.