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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 32 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings

  • Starring: Bette Midler, Danny DeVito
  • Summary: When a woman named Mona (Midler) drives her son's car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a potential suspect.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 32
  2. Negative: 20 out of 32
  1. Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    75
    Executed on a pretty broad level, but if characterization is slighted, the ensemble is so rich, with such depth, that every few minutes another juicy turn keeps coming our way to divert us.
  2. With a hilarious script and capable cast, the film puts a clever spin on the everyone-is-a-suspect plot.
  3. A comedy murder mystery gone seriously astray, boasts an immensely talented cast .
  4. Each of the characters is dull and boorish instead of witty and urbane.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 3 out of 11
  1. BerthaFox-D.
    9
    This is a hillarious movie. It took a couple of viewings before I "got" it, but it's a great film. It reminds me of the Bonnie Bakely trial. The woman was so despised that anyone who came in contact with her could have been culpable! Jamie Lee Curtis steals the show as a greasy spoon waitress who is having an affair with Mona's husband AND son! Worth seeing for sure! Expand

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