Storyline
A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase.
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Cast
Matthew Lillard, Peter Bucossi, Richard Pelzman, Joan Rivers, Traci Lords, Suzanne Somers, Ricki Lake, Anthony 'Chip' Brienza, Kathleen Turner, Mary Jo Catlett, Lee Hunsaker, Jeffrey Pratt Gordon, Justin Whalin, John Badila, Doug Roberts, Scott Morgan, Gwendolyn Briley-Strand, Beau James, Susan Duvall, Nat Benchley, Sam Waterston, Mink Stole, Patricia Hearst, Patricia Dunnock, Rosemary Knower, Johnny Alonso, Tim Caggiano, Walt MacPherson, Lonnie Horsey, Kathy Fannon, Jeff Mandon, Colgate Salsbury, Patsy Grady Abrams, Richard Pilcher, Stan Brandorff, Kim Swann, Bus Howard, Alan J. Wendl, Nancy Robinette, Loretto McNally, Wilfred E. Williams, Joshua L. Shoemaker, Susan Lowe, John Calvin Doyle, Mary Vivian Pearce, Brigid Berlin, Jordan Brown, Shelbi Clarke, Kyf Brewer, Teresa R. Pete, Zachary S. Pete, Chad Bankerd, Robert Roser, Mike Offenheiser, Michael S. Walter, Mojo Gentry, Jennifer Mendenhall, Catherine Anne Hayes, Valerie Yarborough, Jordan Young, L7, Jennifer Finch, Suzi Gardner, Demetra Plakas, Donita Sparks, John A. Schneider, Lyrica Montague
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Reviews
88
Slant Magazine
Serial Mom is the strongest film of the post-midnight-movie chapter of John Waters’s career.
70
Mr. Waters, of course, no longer traffics in the truly vulgar, as he did in early films like Pink Flamingos. With Serial Mom he concocts a cute suburban satire, a warmly funny movie that even a mother could love.
60
Fun, almost endearing in its cheeky irreverence, but also rather mild and scattershot in its satiric marksmanship, Serial Mom provokes chuckles and the occasional raised eyebrow rather than guffaws and gross-outs.
60
A one-joke comedy written and directed by an older, gentler John Waters, the film gets an enormous boost from Kathleen Turner's puckish portrayal of Beverly Sutphin.
50
John Waters's film about a suburban mom turned serial killer lacks the bite it would need to be subversive, despite a few moments of vintage Waters tastelessness.
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