Every Friday night since I was little, I stay over my grandmother's. Usually, we watch Dateline NBC's true crime documentaries, replete with endless tales of tragedy in white suburbia. However, the past week, Dateline was not on for some strange reason, so we instead watched this little diddy, courtesy of Comcast's free OnDemand movies. Drowning Mona is a bad movie. Really bad. It recklessly and shamelessly flaunts good taste and good cinema with wanton impunity. Yet, despite this, there is something very endearing about this movie. It kind of plays out like something by Todd Solondz minus the sexual deviancy, acidic satire, and oppressive nihilism. At the very least, this is a colorful comedy that bucks what one expects from Hollywood, and it features great performances by its cast, especially Danny DeVitto as the town sheriff. Compared to the usual garbage featured OnDemand, Drowning Mona is something of a step up.
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