Serial Mom

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Serial Mom

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Serial Mom

Kathleen Turner, Ricki Lake, Matthew Lillard, Scott Morgan, Walt MacPherson

A sweet mother takes a little too much at heart for the defence of her family.

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  • puffchunk
    November 7, 2008
    puffchunk
    Now chip, you know I don't like the brown word.
  • mwilliams078
    September 13, 2008
    mwilliams078
    Serial Mom, directed by the crazy John Waters makes this movie sooo damn funny. A regular Martha Stewart on the outside (Kathleen Turner) has many secrets in her personal life. People would be shocked and scared about the horrible things she thinks and does. One od my very fav sc...( read more)enes in this movie is of Turner making a prank phone call to her neighbor..."pussy willows....dotty" she would just say that over and over...it is too funny.
  • StaisilD
    January 29, 2008
    StaisilD
    An uproariously witty satire on "petty" bourgeois American values, John Waters brings his own distinctive madness to the screen by focussing on cardboard cut-out caricatures of pop culture America. Turning his outrageous gaze on an archetypally perfect housewife and mother from t...( read more)he Baltimore suburbs in Maryland, supportive to her loving husband and teenage kids and possessing a real talent for cooking, it appears that she is everything a stable, hard-working business man could want. However, there is a slight catch. She is also a serial killer. Mom's tendency to take bloody revenge on any poor neighbouring housewife who fails to observe her rigid socially acceptable guidelines, like not recycling rubbish or driving too fast, is so barmy you are sure to find it absurdly and darkly funny. Kathleen Turner, alternating between dizzy, unquestioning devotion to her family and clinically cool, yet psychotic anger to offending neighbours, either appears to possess a martyr's yellow halo above her head, denoting divine lightness and freshness, or a focussed smile as she carefully contemplates her next victim. The support cast, which includes Matthew Lillard and Ricki Lake, is good; but it's the director that's the real star of the show. John Waters has made a name for himself by creating odd and twisted films, and although I haven't seen a great deal of them; Serial Mom is his best as far as I'm concerned. It's one of those films that constantly make you laugh, while poking fun at society and offending all the right people. All in all, a delightfully politically incorrect comedy led by a Kathleen Turner on top form.
  • stopitgoaway
    January 8, 2008
    stopitgoaway
    An uproariously witty satire on "petty" bourgeois American values, John Waters brings his own distinctive madness to the screen by focussing on cardboard cut-out caricatures of pop culture Americana.

    Turning his outrageous gaze on an archetypally perfect housewife and mother f...( read more)rom the Baltimore suburbs in Maryland, supportive to her loving husband and teenage kids and possessing a real tlent for cooking, it appears that she is everything a stable, hard-working business man could want. However, there is a slight catch. She is also a serial killer.

    Mom's tendency to take bloody revenge on any poor neighbouring housewife who fails to observe her rigid socially acceptable guidelines, like not recycling rubbish or driving too fast, is so barmy you are sure to find it absurdly and darkly funny. Kathleen Turner, alternating between dizzy, unquestioning devotion to her family and clinically cool, yet psychotic anger to offending neighbours, either appears to possess a martyr's yellow halo above her head, denoting divine lightness and freshness, or a focussed smile as she carefully contemplates her next victim.

    If you are on the lookout for some perfectly vibrant, yet malicious black comedy, subscribe to "Serial Mom", one of the most ruthless, patronising skits on good manners and nosey, voyeuristic neighbours ever to hit the screen. If you like Waters' latest irreverent venture into visceral, cutting black humour, then get all his other movies, because they are all even more extreme and grotesque - "Pink Flamingos", "Hairspray", "Cry Baby" - all kitschy, underrated classics in their own right.
  • harrycaul
    December 3, 2007
    harrycaul
    A bit too slick, safe and mainstream for some Waters die-hards, this is still a great vehicle for Kathleen Turner. Some of it works splendidly, for example the old woman getting murdered while watching "Annie" is a hoot. Basil Poledouris' terrifically schmaltzy score suits procee...( read more)dings perfectly. Favourite line: "Help me, Betty! He's worse than the dentist in the "Marathon Man!""
  • doctordoom
    December 22, 2009
    doctordoom
    This was a decent comedy. Basically about a ever day sweet house wife that has a dark secret. She is a serial killer who takes out anyone who hurts her family. This was funny at times. Kathleen Turner was great as the serial killer mom. Some very funny scenes. Made me laugh a few...( read more) times. Worth a one time watch.
  • baller3484
    October 27, 2009
    baller3484
    Kathleen Turner killing people...I mean come on...that alone is worth the watch
  • ElCochran90
    September 16, 2009
    ElCochran90
    Waters still hasn't surprised me with a good film, but I gotta accept this film is funny in very parts from beginning to end and the portrayal of the thematic elements was very satirical and sarcastic. Some elements failed for me, specially in the credibility of the characters, b...( read more)ut... it was fun...

    45/100
  • Rossjm
    September 2, 2009
    Rossjm
    What an amazing satire. Each scene perfectly executed all the while knowing how far out it is. That acknowledgement was the first step towards making this film great.

    Review soon.
  • thekittygoesmeow
    August 22, 2009
    thekittygoesmeow
    The way Kathleen Turner says "Pussy willow" makes me die every time.
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