Drowning Mona
- IMDb link: 0186045
- IMDb rating: 5.7 (16,552 votes)
- Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
- Director: Danny DeVito, Nick Gomez
- Cast: Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bette Midler, Nick Gomez and others
- Release date: 3 Mar 2000
- Release year: 2000
- Runtime: 96 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: lawn mower, car in water, cemetery, flashback, character name in title, older woman younger man relationship, dark comedy, lesbian character, scene during opening credits, drowning murder
Plot:
When Mona's key won't fit in her Yugo, she tries it in her son's; when it works, she borrows his car. The brakes fail; she goes through the guard rail and into the river, and drowns. When Police Chief Rash learns that the brake lines were cut, he looks for a murderer. Suspect one: Mona's dim son Jeff, whom she constantly denigrated. Suspect two: her husband Phil, whom she constantly belittled and who's having an affair with Rona, a waitress with her own secret. Suspect three: Jeff's landscape partner Bobby, who wants Jeff out, has yelled at Mona that he'd like to rip out her ovaries, and who is soon to be Rash's son-in-law. Can Rash find the killer and keep Bobby out of jail?