Serial Mom (Collector's Edition) | 
 enlarge | Actor: Kathleen Turner
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  87 reviews
Sales Rank: 4441
Format: Ac-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Original Recording Remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 94
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 62103472
UPC: 025195027489
EAN: 0025195027489
ASIN: B0013527L6
Theatrical Release Date: April 13, 1994
Release Date: May 6, 2008
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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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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
Description
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!
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 she's coming for you July 19, 2008
I bought the dvd to build out my John Waters collection a little. Kathleen Turner is both hilarious and frightening in the movie. The gore is a little over the top, but it is a John waters movie. Before seeing this movie I disliked the song "Tomorrow" from "Annie", this movie really helped me see it in another light.
 Funny Film Finally ReReleased June 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"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.
Delightful Murder Movie June 9, 2008
As a long time John Waters fan I enjoy Serial Mom the most of all the films he has made. The cast is perfect with Kathleen Turner playing her role to perfection. The dialoge, unlike Waters other films, is clean and crisp and gets right to the point unlike his wordy scripts in his other films. The plot is funny and it is one of my 90 year old mothers favorite films to watch again and again. This is without a doubt Waters best film.
one of my favorites April 14, 2008
This was my first John Waters movie-so it's definately my favorite by him, one of my favorite Kathleen Turner movies-2nd being War o/the Roses.
Now, to the review.
Aside from two graphically violent scenes-this movie is a twisted riot!
The prank phone call scene, her twisted sense of morality and the murders leading up to the trial were hilarious!
I just found out it's getting the collector's edition treatment...I WANT IT!
I have the first edition on DVD, worth everything, this edition will not change my opinion of the film. I've loved it since I was 13(27 now) I wish I didn't have to wait till May, oh well.
Outrageous And Fulfilling February 18, 2008
Mom takes out those obnoxious souls who violate her vision of what is decent and proper with the same righteousness and zeal as the abortion foes take out abortion clinic workers. Her family and most of the town are with her, albeit fearfully and respectfully. The courtroom scene in which mom reduces a righteous gentleman on the stand to testify against her to a quivering bowl of jelly is not to be missed. But mom in the closing moments does go over the top. I for one hope she survives to continue her good works. Five stars.
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