Serial Mom

“Every mom wants to be wanted, but not for murder!”

6.7

1994

1h 34m

ComedyCrime

Director: John Waters

Overview

Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.

Trailer

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Cast

Beverly Sutphin

Kathleen Turner

Beverly Sutphin

Eugene Sutphin

Sam Waterston

Eugene Sutphin

Misty Sutphin

Ricki Lake

Misty Sutphin

Chip Sutphin

Matthew Lillard

Chip Sutphin

Detective Pike

Scott Morgan

Detective Pike

Detective Gracey

Walt MacPherson

Detective Gracey

Scotty

Justin Whalin

Scotty

Birdie

Patricia Dunnock

Birdie

Carl

Lonnie Horsey

Carl

Dottie Hinkle

Mink Stole

Dottie Hinkle

Rosemary Ackerman

Mary Jo Catlett

Rosemary Ackerman

Mr. Stubbins

John Badila

Mr. Stubbins

Reviews

kevin2019

"Serial Mom" - which, by the way, is not for the faint hearted - is a wonderfully inappropriate guilty pleasure packed with lots of macabre fun and its wholesome depiction of life in American suburbia resembles David Lynch's contentious "Blue Velvet" (1986), but like most things in this life everything just looks too good to be true and that is simply because it is. The nicest neighbours can have the darkest secrets of all and the most hospitable and unassuming people can also be the most abominable monsters. Beverly Sutphin is a case in point. She is a charming and delightful house wife, mother, and ruthless serial killer in John Waters's controversial and outrageous satirical black comedy which affords him the ideal opportunity to present a range of biting and astutely observed insights into contemporary America and the ceaseless media frenzy surrounding the absolutely ridiculous and completely irresponsible cult of celebrity.

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