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 neighbour, always recycle, rewind your videotapes, and never, ever wear white shoes after Labour 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' 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.
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Just don't annoy this lady!
With a cast that throws themselves body and soul into this send up of the great American ideal of happy families this film really goes for the jugular vein in humour, as surely as Mom goes for the jugular of anyone who crosses her!
The film also takes a side swipe at media excesses, people who will not recycle, collectors of cheap tat and more.
The plot soon becomes unreal but the pace is so fast that one is carried along and able to overlook the shortcomings.
Funny, delightful and with just the right amount of horror ... see it!
Serial Mom Turner plays a picture-perfect housewife who, on closer inspection, reveals a murderous hatred for anyone offending her apple-pie values in John Water's subversive black comedy
Forget to floss, or mess with her daughter (Lake) and she'll blow you away.
Eventually the police (and news crews) catch up with her, and, having dug up the manicured lawns of Middle America, Waters' comedy swings at the alarming marriage of the country's twin obsessions - crime and fame.
Verdict
It's a patchy film and not nearly as subversive as the director's earlier work, but he's still sharper than most and, with Turner on flying form, it's well worth a look.
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