Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783114927
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783114923
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 13, 1999
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 24149
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 13, 1994
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Amazon.com essential video:
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
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Funny Film Finally ReReleased
"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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Delightful Murder Movie
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.
Rating: - one of my favorites
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.
Rating: - Outrageous And Fulfilling
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.
Rating: - RELIEF
If the pressure of Mother-hood is building up, and you need relief, vicariously, this is the film for you. It is my favorite film of all time for that reason. I see that they are releasing a collector's edition in time for Mother's Day, now that's special. Get ready to unwind!
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