Drowning Mona VHS
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"Drowning Mona" on VHS, Columbia Pictures, sealed. This is the 2000 dark comedy whodunit starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Neve Campbell, still wrapped in its original Blockbuster shrink with the pre-viewed sticker intact at $9.99. The shrink seal seam is unbroken. Nobody has been inside this tape.
The film came out in February 2000, directed by Nick Gomez, and it arrived at a moment when the dark comedy murder mystery was pulling real box office weight. Think "Fargo" four years prior setting the blueprint, "Very Bad Things" in 1998, "Election" in 1999. Columbia was running a loaded release slate at the turn of the millennium and "Drowning Mona" fit the pocket perfectly: small-town crime, ensemble cast, pitch-black jokes about people nobody liked. DeVito as the overwhelmed small-town chief of police. Midler as the titular Mona, dead before the title card. Curtis as a diner waitress. Campbell as the daughter caught in the middle. The whole cast lands in Verplanck, New York, a fictional Hudson Valley town where literally everyone had a motive. The film did not dominate the box office but it built its audience on video, exactly the format you're looking at right now.
Factory-sealed from the year Blockbuster still believed in VHS and ordered by the pallet.
The Blockbuster shrink is the whole story on this copy. Pre-viewed stickers on sealed tapes tell you the unit was priced for resale but never got there. The cover art is worth the price alone: bold pink title lettering, body outline replacing the O in Mona, full cast posed on a green lawn, the tone of the film read in a single image. The $9.99 sticker is intact, no curl, no adhesive ghosting visible through the shrink. Run your thumb along the shrink seal seam before you open it. If it's clean and unbroken on all four edges, you've got a genuinely unplayed copy from the original Blockbuster stock cycle.
OWNER VERIFY: Confirm the Blockbuster shrink seal seam is intact on all four edges before listing as factory-sealed condition.
Factory-sealed from the year Blockbuster still believed in VHS and ordered by the pallet.
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This drowning mona vhs originates from the y2k era[01], represents Columbia Pictures[02]'s output, . Each piece in the shop is a single unit, inspected by hand in Las Vegas before listing. The data manifest to the right records the fields on file for this lot; where a field is empty it has been omitted rather than guessed.
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