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Herald rataing: * * Running time: 91 mins Rental: Now Review: Ewan McDonald Everyone in Verplanck, New York, drives a Yugo, the car that disappeared about the same time as its country. Verplanck was the test market when the Yugo was brought into the United States and the dim (well, they had to be to

Herald rataing: * *

Running time: 91 mins

Rental: Now

Review: Ewan McDonald

Everyone in Verplanck, New York, drives a Yugo, the car that disappeared about the same time as its country. Verplanck was the test market when the Yugo was brought into the United States and the dim (well, they had to be to drive Yugos) locals can't afford to replace them.

A local woman, Mona Dearly (Bette Midler), drives into the Hudson River when her brakes fail. Chief Rash (Danny DeVito) starts the investigation and Lucinda (Kathleen Wilhoite), the mechanic, confirms Mona's car was nobbled.

Almost everyone in town is a suspect. Flashbacks show Mona was a tough cookie who might have hacked off her son Jeff's hand because he was trying to snatch her beer. Jeff (Marcus Thomas) might have wanted to kill her. So might her husband, Phil (William Fichtner), who was having an affair with Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis), a waitress at the diner who was also having an affair with Jeff.

Or maybe Bobby (Casey Affleck), Jeff's landscaping partner, killed Mona before she created a scene at his wedding to Ellen (Neve Campbell), Chief Rash's daughter.

The chief, the brightest resident of town, finds his case has become a series of bar fights as remembered by drunks. Everyone agrees on one thing: Verplanck is a nicer place now that Mona's gone.

Likeable enough, but perhaps this and the recent Jacqueline Susann biopic are why Bette Midler is now starring in a TV sitcom.

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