During a series of flashbacks we discover that Mona was the most hated woman in the small upstate New York town in which she lived. Through the flashbacks, we also get to why everyone is a suspect, when Mona s death turns out to be murder. Midler also manages to get many of the film s biggest laughs with her wonderfully nasty performance. Colors reproduction delivers natural saturation and healthy looking flesh tones. There are no problems with either chroma noise or bleeding anywhere on the disc.
Blacks have a solid inky consistency, plus the picture provides a good level of shadow detail.
Digital compression artifacts are well concealed throughout the presentation. The Dolby Digital 5.1 channel soundtrack has a better than average comedy mix, with some nicely deployed directional effects. Dialogue is cleanly reproduced with full intelligibility, plus the mix nicely integrates a number of retro pop tunes into all of the discrete channels. Additionally, the surround channels provide a lot of subtle sound effects, as well as a good deal of ambience. Michael Tavera s delightful musical score also proves to be a treat on this well mixed soundtrack.