
“Every mom wants to be wanted, but not for murder!”
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.
Release Date: 4/13/1994
Runtime: 94 minutes
Languages: English
Director: John Waters
Budget: $13.0M
Revenue: $7.8M
Companies: Polar Entertainment, Savoy Pictures
Countries: United States of America
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"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.

Kathleen Turner
Beverly Sutphin

Sam Waterston
Eugene Sutphin

Ricki Lake
Misty Sutphin

Matthew Lillard
Chip Sutphin

Scott Morgan
Detective Pike

Walt MacPherson
Detective Gracey

Justin Whalin
Scotty

Patricia Dunnock
Birdie

Lonnie Horsey
Carl

Mink Stole
Dottie Hinkle

Mary Jo Catlett
Rosemary Ackerman

John Badila
Mr. Stubbins
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