Serial Mom R

Every Mom Wants to Be Wanted, But Not For Murder!
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 6, 2008
  • Originally Released: 1994
  • Label: Universal Studios

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User Ratings: 48,222
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Lacks the bite it would need to be subversive, despite a few moments of vintage Waters tastelessness. Full Review
TV Guide
May 8, 2008
...This is a high Waters mark....The renegade director/writer kicks the nation smack in its collective groin, marvelously mocking the oh-so-current mania over crime figures and tabloid scandals... -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars
USA Today
Apr 13, 1994
Rating: 7/10 -- Serial Mom is one of Waters' most personal and autobiographical works. Full Review
MUBI
Dec 27, 2018
Rating: 2/4 -- While the idea sounds fertile, the execution is uneven, and the comedy sporadic at best. Full Review
ReelViews
Jan 1, 2000
A killingly funny spoof of crime and nonpunishment.
Rolling Stone
May 13, 2001
4 stars out of 5 -- Water's spin on serial-killer films holds up as both a skewering of celebrity culture and a gleeful gore-com.
Total Film
Sep 1, 2013
...There's a martini dryness to Waters's sick sense of humor that's perfectly embodied in Turner's performance. -- Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Aug 26, 1994

Product Description:

Happy homemaker Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) has a charmed life--a beautiful suburban home, a successful dentist husband (Sam Waterston), and two normal teenagers, Misty (Ricki Lake) and Chip (Matthew Lillard). But she also has a good deal of underlying rage waiting to escape....Just be sure to follow her rules: Be polite to your neighbor, always recycle, rewind your videotapes, and never, ever wear white shoes after Labor Day. When one of her son's teachers speaks disparagingly of the boy at a parent-teacher conference, Bev runs the instructor over in the school parking lot. Suddenly she has an insatiable taste for murder. Six homicides later, the cops get wise to her crimes, which are committed with weapons ranging from a leg of lamb to a fireplace poker. A media frenzy ensues, turning an unrepentant Beverly into a media celebrity.

A serial-killer comedy mixed with courtroom-drama social satire, the raunchy SERIAL MOM was John Waters's return to R-rated fare after the sweet-natured duo of HAIRSPRAY and CRY-BABY. Suburban life is duly skewered here as the serenity of Beverly's upper-middle-class surroundings are continually sullied by her comedically disturbing acts of violence. Turner appears to relish the opportunity to play such an over-the-top role, and the usual Baltimore-based supporting players make welcome appearances.

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