Drowning Mona

Drowning Mona is a 2000 comedy-mystery starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly, a spiteful, loud-mouthed, cruel and around the town highly unpopular woman, who drove her son's Yugo off the cliff and drowned in the river. The movie's first scene shows Mona Dearly leaving her home and trying in vain to unlock her car. Her keys fit her son's car, so she takes that and drives off. In a bend, the brakes fail completely and she drives off a cliff into the Hudson River. This is observed by Clarence, who is fishing there. Wyatt later observes that there are no skid marks on the road. Neither Phil nor Jeff seem upset when they hear about Mona's death and they are not the only ones. Ellie even wants to celebrate, because she feels the Dearlys have always treated Bobby very badly. JB Landscaping is not doing well because of Jeff's laziness and lack of right hand and because Bobby is not very... full article at wikipedia