Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30330 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-06-30
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Full Screen, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 99 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
In Serial Mom director John Waters creates a wickedly funny--and nasty--comedy starring Kathleen Turner as the ultimate suburbanite: a woman so obsessed with suburban perfection that she kills a neighbour 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 neighbourhood 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 OJ Simpson) and featuring a terrific cameo by Patty Hearst (yes, that Patty Hearst). Not for the squeamish or the easily offended, Waters' fans will find him in classic form. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

Synopsis
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.

Customer Reviews

Breakfast Serial
A real piece of cheesecake - Hollywood at its absolute best.

Hilarious from start to finish and one of those films which should be watched whenever you need some mindless escapism. Very gory and bloody, and fully deserving of its 18 rating, it nonetheless delivers a brilliant lesson on the morals of small-town life (not just in the US)...but that's not really why you should watch it.

I don't think there is much to moan about really, it's not a screen great but then, sometimes you just need a good old-fashioned romp to relax and unwind.

A true story though?! It's too neat (particularly in the ending) and doesn't need "justifying" in this way.

A TRUE CLASSIC! COMIC GENIUS AT ITS BEST!
when i first saw this film i did not know what to expect, but i soon discovered after the first ten minutes, that i knew i was going to love this film. beverley, a caring mother and mother of 2 children, misty and chip and also wife to a dentist seems like the perfect mother but as the film progresses you will find out not all is how it seems to be. the whole film is acted brilliantly and the "events" which occur are all hilarious. you can go to back to this film countless times and never be bored with it, a true modern classic.

Great movie, bad dvd release
I really enjoyed this film when it was first released on 1995 in Spain, so I couldn't wait to get the DVD to see it in its original language. Sadly, this film hasn't yet been released in Spain in the DVD so I got it over amazon.
Sadly, the DVD release is poor. No extras and no subtitles -which is quite an issue for me. Just shortcuts to scenes and a trailer. The quality of the audio isn't quite good, neither.
Anyway, it's still a really good, clever comedy that anyone might enjoy and the only release so far.