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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Not For Children, Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 1994 DVD Release: 07/13/1999 Format: DVD Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 33 mins Studio: HBO Home Video Members Wishing: 4 Genres: Comedy, Satire, Black Comedy, Media Satire See Also: Serial Mom [Collector's Edition], Serial Mom [Collector's Edition] [With Mamma Mia! Picture Frame]

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 just one problem with Beverly -- if you do anything to make someone in her family feel bad, you're dead meat on a stick. While she does a great job of hiding it, Beverly has a vicious and vengeful streak, and when she's not making obscene prank calls to the neighbors or bribing her garbagemen to save embarrassing items from her neighbors' trash, she's mowing down whoever would be so rude as to make her husband go into his office on a Saturday, break up with her daughter, or suggest that her son watches too many horror movies. Taking John Waters back to R-rated territory after the relatively sedate Hairspray and Cry Baby, Serial Mom captures a comfortable middle ground between Hollywood professionalism and Waters' subversive sense of humor, and Kathleen Turner has a field day as the sweet-on-the-outside, evil-on-the-inside Beverly. The supporting cast includes such Waters favorites as Patty Hearst, Traci Lords, Mink Stole, and Susan Lowe; Joan Rivers and Suzanne Somers appear as themselves, and all-female grunge-metal band L7 plays the all-female grunge-metal band Camel Toe. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Kathleen Turner - Beverly Sutphin
Sam Waterston - Eugene Sutphin
Ricki Lake - Misty Sutphin
Matthew Lillard - Chip Sutphin
Mary Jo Catlett - Rosemary Ackerman

John Waters' Serial Mom comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. Closed-captioned English soundtracks are rendered in both Dolby Digital Surround and Dolby Digital Stereo, while a French soundtrack has also been recorded in Dolby Digital Stereo. English, French, and Spanish subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a commentary track by Waters, the original theatrical trailer, and cast biographies. Waters' remarkably entertaining and informative commentary, coupled with the inexpensive list price, makes this disc highly recommended for anyone with a taste for the out of the ordinary. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide