Serial Mom

Serial Mom (1994)

  • 60% of critics liked it
    (45 reviews)

  • 62% of users liked it
    (46,735 ratings)

Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) is the perfect suburban housewife and mother. She likes to cook, her home is immaculately clean, she's always well-groomed and cheerful, and she loves her husband Eugene (Sam Waterston) and her two children, Misty (Ricki Lake) and Chip (Matthew Lillard). There's… More

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R, 1 hr. 33 min.
Directed By
John Waters
Written By
John Waters
Genres
Drama, Horror, Comedy
In Theaters
Apr 13, 1994 Wide
On DVD
Jul 13, 1999
HBO Video

Critic Reviews

  • Todd McCarthy, Variety

    Rather mild and scattershot in its satiric marksmanship...

  • Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

    The murders are multiple but the joke is strictly one-note.

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    A killingly funny spoof of crime and nonpunishment.

  • Rita Kempley, Washington Post

    Too realistically gory to really be funny.

  • Joe Brown, Washington Post

    Offensively tame and almost (gasp) tasteful.

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  • AJ V


    My favourite John Waters movie so far! This is one of those horror movies that are so outrageous they're hilarious, or in other words a black comedy (which is slightly more scary than funny). I highly recommend this movie.

  • Film C


    It is funny in places, but i got a bit confused as it said at the beginning of the movie that it is a movie based on real events which i find really hard to believe, which is just as well as it was a gag by john waters who said the whole thing was made up!! Just as well it was made… More

  • Wahida K


    Christ, Kahtleen Turner was Brilliant as Psycho Mom. Anything that annoyed her, got vanished!

  • Curtis L


    Now chip, you know I don't like the brown word.

  • Mason W


    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 scenes… More

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