Drowning mona casey affleck biography

Everyone in Verplanck, N.Y., drives a Yugo. An older Yugo, since the car hasn’t been manufactured since its country went out of business.

Drowning mona casey affleck biography

We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. That explains why everyone was driving them then. After we meet the local residents, we understand why they’re driving them now: They can’t afford to replace them.

As the movie opens, a local woman named Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) speeds down a country road and directly into the Hudson River when her brakes fail.

It is a measure of the local intelligence that when the car and driver are dragged to shore some hours later, the doctor checks her pulse. “She’s dead,” he confirms to Chief Rash (Danny DeVito), who nods grimly and begins a murder investigation.

Lucinda (Kathleen Wilhoite), the local garage mechanic, checks out the death vehicle and confirms the sheriff’s suspicions: The car was rigged.