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3 unusual facts about Drowning Mona


Beacon, New York

Drowning Mona — The movie's production studio, Code Entertainment, claims that the movie was based and partially filmed in the city during its 1999 filming.

Drowning Mona

Drowning Mona is a 2000 comedy-mystery film starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly, a spiteful, loud-mouthed, cruel and highly unpopular woman, who drove her son's car off a cliff and drowned in a river.

The film is notable for the number of Yugo automobiles that are driven by the main characters, as well as the number of personalized license plates, including 'JEPH' for Jeff, 'UGOMONA' for Mona, 'OHRONE' for Rona, 'PHIL123' for Phil, 'POLICE' for Wyatt, 'ELLIEE' for Ellie, 'MURPH' for Murph.



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