Serial Mom R
Every Mom Wants to Be Wanted, But Not For Murder!
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DVD Details
- 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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston & Ricki Lake | |
Performer: | Matthew Lillard, Scott Wesley, Mink Stole, Justin Whalin & Mary Jo Catlett | |
Directed by | John Waters | |
Edited by | Janice Hampton | |
Screenwriting by | John Waters | |
Composition by | Basil Poledouris | |
Cameo: | Suzanne Somers, Joan Rivers, Traci Lords & Brigid Berlin | |
Produced by | John Fiedler & Mark Tarlov | |
Director of Photography: | Robert M. Stevens | |
Executive Production by | Joseph M. Caracciolo, Jr. |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Lacks the bite it would need to be subversive, despite a few moments of vintage Waters tastelessness.
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TV Guide
...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
Rating: 7/10 --
Serial Mom is one of Waters' most personal and autobiographical works.
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MUBI
Rating: 2/4 --
While the idea sounds fertile, the execution is uneven, and the comedy sporadic at best.
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ReelViews
A killingly funny spoof of crime and nonpunishment.
Rolling Stone
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
...There's a martini dryness to Waters's sick sense of humor that's perfectly embodied in Turner's performance. -- Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly
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.
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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