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Serial Mom (1994) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Apr 13, 1994
DVD Release Date
• R1: May 31, 2004
Budget $13,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 35 minutes
Country USA
Studio Savoy Pictures
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Other Titles
• Serial Mom
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Comedy, Serial Killer, Murder, Campy, Black Comedy, Cult Classic, Satire, Courtroom, Spoof, Gay/Lesbian, Psychos, Gore
Tagline: She's a fabulous, loving, caring mother, who er... ...happens to be a serial killer!
Plot: 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
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