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Mona Dearly is a hard-drinking, abusive woman disliked by nearly everyone in Verplanck, New York. When her key will not fit her own car, she drives off in her son Jeff's Yugo; on a bend the brakes give out and the car goes off the road into the Hudson. Clarence, who is fishing nearby, witnesses the crash. Chief Wyatt Rash finds no skid marks, and the mechanic Lucinda reports that someone had tampered with the car. Among the suspects are Jeff, whom his mother belittled; her husband Phil, who was having an affair with the waitress Rona Mace; and Bobby Calzone, Jeff's landscaping partner, who wanted out of their failing business, had quarreled with Mona over Jeff's pay, and is engaged to Rash's daughter Ellie.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Drowning Mona (2000)
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- People living in Verplanck, New York, were angered by how insulting the film made their town look. Screenwriter Peter Steinfeld answered that he meant no insult and had chosen Verplanck purely because of its history with the Yugo.
