Drowning Mona

Drowning Mona
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Nick Gomez
Written by	Peter Steinfeld
Produced by	Al Corley
Starring	Danny DeVito Bette Midler Neve Campbell Jamie Lee Curtis Casey Affleck William Fichtner Marcus Thomas Peter Dobson
Cinematography	Bruce Douglas Johnson
Edited by	Richard Pearson
Music by	Michael Tavera
Production companies	Destination Films Neverland Films Jersey Films
Distributed by	Destination Films
Release date	March 3, 2000 (2000-03-03)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$16 million
Box office	$15.9 million[1]

Drowning Mona is a 2000 American crime comedy film starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly (Bette Midler), a spiteful, hard-drinking, loud-mouthed, abusive woman, hated by all who knew her, who drove her son's car off a cliff and drowned in a river. The film received negative reviews from critics.