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Format: DVD

Jul 1999

Rated R

Recording Mode: Dolby Surround AC-3

Closed Captioned

93 min.

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UPC: 026359098024
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Serial Mom (DVD, 1999) Other Editions...
Leading Role: Kathleen Turner, Matthew Lillard, Ricki Lake, Sam Waterston, Suzanne Somers
Director: John Waters

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About this Movie
Movie 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.

Credits
Cast:Kathleen Turner, Matthew Lillard, Ricki Lake, Sam Waterston, Suzanne Somers
Director:John Waters
Producer:John Fiedler, Mark Tarlov

Synopsis
SERIAL MOM is John Waters's spoof of (and homage to) the perfect suburban housewife--and the homicidal impulses seething beneath that cheery exterior.

Film Notes
DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Pan & Scan - 1.33
Single Side - Single Layer
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital Stereo - English
Dolby Digital Stereo - French
Additional Release Material:
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Audio Commentary - 1. John Waters - Director
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Text/Photo Galleries:
Biographies - 1. Cast & Crew
Filmographies

Industry Reviews
"...Turner leaps into the most delicious role she has had in years....[Waters] concocts a cute suburban satire, a warmly funny movie that even a mother could love..."
James

"...There's a martini dryness to Waters's sick sense of humor that's perfectly embodied in Turner's performance." -- Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly - Glenn Kenny (08/26/1994)

"...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 - Susan Wloszczyna (04/13/1994)

Quotations
"I never say the 'P' word out loud!"--Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner), when accused of making an obscene phone call to a neighbor


"Somebody ought to kill her...give her a happy face..."--Garbage man to Beverley when discussing a neighbor who doesn't recycle


"Now I'll never get a boyfriend!"--Misty (Ricki Lake), after her mother is announced on the radio as a serial killer


"Chip, you know I hate the 'brown word.'"--Beverly to her son, Chip (Matthew Lillard), after he says a certain four-letter word


"You can't wear white shoes after Labor Day!"--Beverly to Juror #8 (Patricia Hearst)


"Do you think I need to call a lawyer?"--Beverly to Chip

"You need an agent."--Chip


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