Serial Mom (Collector's Edition)
by John Waters
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Actor: Kathleen Turner, Matthew Lillard, Ricki Lake, Sam Waterston, Scott MorganDirector: John Waters
Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)
Cinematographer: Robert M. Stevens
Writer: John Waters
Editor: Erica Huggins
Producer: John Fiedler
Producer: Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr.
Producer: Mark Tarlov
Producer: Pat Moran
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Serial Mom (Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: Funny Film Finally ReReleased
Summary: 4 Stars
"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.
Description of Serial Mom (Collector's Edition)
Director John Waters puts a twist on the everyday mediocrity of suburban life in the hilarious satire Serial Mom. See Kathleen Turner like never before as Beverly Sutphin, the seemingly perfect homemaker who will stop at nothing to rid the neighborhood of anyone failing to live up to her moral code. Featuring a digitally remastered picture and 5.1 surround sound, Serial Mom is a killer comedy that will take you over the edge with laughter!Director John Waters creates here a wickedly funny--and nasty--comedy starring Kathleen Turner as the ultimate suburbanite: a woman so obsessed with suburban perfection that she kills a neighbor for not separating her recyclables. Hubby Sam Waterston and kids Matthew Lillard and Ricki Lake don't have a clue that in fact it is squeaky-clean mom who is the killer at large in their Baltimore neighborhood and who has murdered, among others, the guy who dumped her daughter. The final courtroom scene is a riot, turning her into a celebrity defendant (long before O.J.) and featuring a terrific cameo by Patty Hearst (yes, that Patty Hearst). Not for the squeamish or the easily offended, Waters's fans will find him in classic form. --Marshall Fine
Director John Waters creates here a wickedly funny--and nasty--comedy starring Kathleen Turner as the ultimate suburbanite: a woman so obsessed with suburban perfection that she kills a neighbor for not separating her recyclables. Hubby Sam Waterston and kids Matthew Lillard and Ricki Lake don't have a clue that in fact it is squeaky-clean mom who is the killer at large in their Baltimore neighborhood and who has murdered, among others, the guy who dumped her daughter. The final courtroom scene is a riot, turning her into a celebrity defendant (long before O.J.) and featuring a terrific cameo by Patty Hearst (yes, that Patty Hearst). Not for the squeamish or the easily offended, Waters's fans will find him in classic form. --Marshall Fine
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