Serial Mom (1994)

The Best!!!!

Serial Mom is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen! I have watched it a million times and I still crack up! Words cannot describe the awesomeness of Serial Mom you have to see it yourself! Enjoy! August 20, 2008

Brilliant black comedy - great fun!

This is terrific dark comedy. The script and the situation are wonderful. There are great cameos and some incredibly funny situations. Kathleen Turner gives a fantastic performance and had me in tucks of laughter.

This is an outstanding movie, buy it! August 19, 2008

Gift to a friend

I'm sorry, I am not qualified to review this product since I ordered it as a gift to a friend and did not view the the product. I did get it in a timely manner and it was recieve in pristine condition. July 24, 2008

she's coming for you

I bought the dvd to build out my John Waters collection a little. Kathleen Turner is both hilarious and frightening in the movie. The gore is a little over the top, but it is a John waters movie. Before seeing this movie I disliked the song "Tomorrow" from "Annie", this movie really helped me see it in another light. July 19, 2008

Funny Film Finally ReReleased

"Serial Mom," (1994), a gory comic crime caper that's another in director John Waters' twisted salutes to Baltimore, Maryland, his home town, has finally been re-released, thank goodness. It's been impossible to get for years; now it comes to us in a deluxe version with some interesting, entertaining commentaries that make it even better worth the price.

First things first: it's very entertaining, but it is, of course, a one-joke movie: that being that title character Beverly R. Sutphin,(Kathleen Turner)a buttoned down 1950s suburban housewife in the June Cleaver mold, also happens to be, occasionally, a serial killer - -though she claims the only cereal she knows anything about is Rice Krispies. They say, by the way, that Waters' original choice for the part was Susan Sarandon, but she was too expensive: that's just as well, as, anyone who's seen the picture can tell you, Turner made the part her own. Sam Waterston, who would achieve wider recognition as a U.S. President on television, plays Beverly's husband, Eugene Sutphin, D.D.S. (a gormless dentist). Waters' regular Ricki Lake plays their daughter Misty; another Waters' regular, Mink Stole, is along as Dottie Hinkle, another suburban housewife. Traci Lords twinkles, fully-dressed, in a bit part. Notorious heiress Patricia Hearst, who was kidnapped by crazed radical left-wingers in the late 1970's, and paid for it, is very funny as Juror #8, the one wearing the white shoes after Labor Day: don't you just love the conversation in which she desperately tries to convince Beverly that fashion has changed its views in that matter? And Suzanne Somers is along playing her pixilated self.

The movie's got some of Waters' typical touches: an autographed photo of Charles Manson; an actual Christmas card made and sent by John Wayne Gacy, and his own (Waters' voice) as Ted Bundy's, on a cassette found under Beverly's bed: you see, she collects serial killer memorabilia. And it's time to say now; he's a very good woman's director: even if that woman is a cross-dressed man (see Divine in the director's original "Hair Spray"). In fact, Waters, who has evidently recently been doing a whistle-stop tour, during which I saw him locally -- this is off message as they say, please forgive me -- said he was most proud of two things in regard to "Hair Spray." If any local theater or college group decided to do the play, there'd be a part for a fat girl; and one for a cross-dresser. The man just loves his twisted sisters, doesn't he.
June 12, 2008

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