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I watched "Drowning Mona" this weekend. My mom came into town with one day's notice, and agreed to watch the Little Raskol while my wife and I went out on a date. We had a glorious time (Freedom!), despite the fact that the movie was pretty damned lame. Dinner went late, or we would have caught Erin Brokovich instead.
There are a handful of truly wonderful moments, that are throwaways. There is one scene where the father mechanic turns to his daughter and says "are you going to charge him double?" She says "damn right", and we get a brief shot of the father beaming with paternal pride. But the film is ineptly edited, with shots being cut off too soon or too late for the intended effect, and with huge storytelling holes which just scream "missing scene". The ending sucks, and I had most of the mystery figured out 40 seconds into the film.
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