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Directed by John Waters. With Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake, Matthew Lillard. A sweet mother finds herself participating in homicidal activities when she sees the occasion call for it.
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| Directed by | John Waters |
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| Written by | John Waters |
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| Music by | Basil Poledouris |
| Cinematography | Robert M. Stevens |
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| Distributed by | Savoy Pictures |
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Running time | 93 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $13 million[2] |
| Box office | $7.8 million[2] |
Serial Mom is a 1994 American comedycrime film written and directed by John Waters,[3][4] and starring Kathleen Turner as the title character, Sam Waterston as her husband, and Ricki Lake and Matthew Lillard as her children. Patty Hearst, Suzanne Somers, Joan Rivers, Traci Lords, and Brigid Berlin make cameo appearances in the film.
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The film was released theatrically in the United States on April 13, 1994 to mixed to positive reviews from critics, but was a box office bomb, grossing nearly $8 million from a $13 million budget.[2]
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Plot[edit]
Beverly Sutphin appears to be a typical suburban housewife living with her dentist husband, Eugene, and their teenage children, Misty and Chip, in the suburbs of Baltimore. However, she is secretly a serial killer, murdering people over the most trivial of perceived slights, including mere faux pas.
During breakfast, Detectives Pike and Gracey arrive to question the family about the vulgar harassment of their neighbor, Dottie Hinkle. After the police and her family leave, Beverly disguises her voice to make obscene phone calls to Dottie, revealed in a flashback to be retaliation for Dottie previously stealing a parking space from Beverly. Later that day, Mr. Stubbins, Chip's math teacher, becomes Beverly's first known murder victim after he criticizes Chip's interests and questions the boy's mental health and family life, as well as berating her parenting. Beverly runs Mr. Stubbins over with her car, and is witnessed by Luann Hodges, a young woman smoking marijuana nearby. The next day, Misty is upset when Carl Pageant stands her up for a date. Beverly spots Carl with another girl at a swap meet and murders him in the bathroom with a fireplace poker.
Eugene discovers that Beverly has hidden a collection of serial killer memorabilia beneath their mattress. That evening at dinner, Chip comments that his friend Scotty thinks that she is the killer. Beverly immediately leaves in her car, prompting the family to rush to Scotty's house for fear that Beverly plans to kill him; however, Beverly has actually gone to kill Eugene's patient Ralph Sterner and his wife, Betty, for calling Eugene away to treat her husband's chronic toothache on a Saturday they were supposed to spend birdwatching, and for eating chicken that reminds her of the starlings. She stabs Betty with scissors borrowed from the Sutphins' neighbor Rosemary, and pushes an air conditioner from a second-story window onto Ralph, standing on the walkway below. Meanwhile, the rest of the family and the police arrive at Scotty's house, only to find him in his room masturbating to an old porn video.
That Sunday, police follow the Sutphins to church and a news report names Beverly as the suspect in the Sterners' murders. The service ends in pandemonium when the sound of Beverly sneezing causes everyone to panic and flee the church. Police detectives confirm that Beverly's fingerprints match those at the Sterner crime scene and attempt to arrest her, but she escapes. She hides at the video rental store where Chip works, but a customer, Mrs. Jensen, argues with Chip over paying a fee for failing to rewind a videotape and calls him a 'son of a psycho'. Beverly follows Mrs. Jensen home and bludgeons her to death with a leg of lamb while she sings along to 'Tomorrow' on her rented copy of Annie. Scotty witnesses the attack through a window, Beverly sees him, and a car chase ensues. Catching him at a local club, Hammerjack's, Beverly sets Scotty aflame onstage in front of a deranged crowd during the set of an all-female band called Camel Lips. The Sutphin family arrive, as do the police, and Beverly is arrested.
Beverly's trial becomes a national sensation. The media dub her 'Serial Mom', Chip hires an agent to manage the family's media appearances and Misty sells merchandise outside the courthouse. During opening arguments, Beverly's lawyer claims that she is not guilty by reason of insanity, but she fires him and proposes to represent herself, citing various law books she has read, to her prosecutor's dismay. The judge reluctantly agrees and the trial begins. Beverly proves to be extremely skilled and formidable in defending herself, systematically discrediting nearly every witness against her by using trick questioning to incite Dottie to contempt of court by repeated obscenities; finding a transsexual-themed magazine in Gracey's trash, invoking that judging a person by what they choose to read proves nothing; badgering Rosemary into admitting she doesn't recycle; and fanning her legs repeatedly at pervert Marvin Pickles, witness to Carl's murder, whose resulting over-arousal causes him to commit perjury. The only witness she does not actively discredit is Luann Hodges, but Hodges is unable to provide credible testimony anyway, due to being under the influence of marijuana. During Pike's crucial testimony, the entire courtroom (including the judge and jury) is distracted by the arrival of Suzanne Somers, who plans to portray Beverly as the heroine of a television film.
Beverly is acquitted of all charges, stunning her family, who vow to 'never get on her nerves'. Throughout the trial, Beverly has been displeased that a juror (Patty Hearst) is wearing white shoes after Labor Day. Beverly follows her to a payphone and fatally strikes her in the head with the receiver. Somers then angers Beverly into an outburst by trying to pose for a picture that will show Beverly's 'bad side', just as the juror's body is discovered.
The film ends with a close-up of Beverly's wicked smile and a caption stating that Beverly 'refused to cooperate' with the making of the film.
Cast[edit]
- Kathleen Turner as Beverly Sutphin
- Sam Waterston as Eugene Sutphin
- Ricki Lake as Misty Sutphin
- Matthew Lillard as Chip Sutphin
- Scott Wesley Morgan as Detective Pike
- Walt MacPherson as Detective Gracey
- Patricia Dunnock as Birdie
- Mink Stole as Dottie Hinkle
- Mary Jo Catlett as Rosemary Ackerman
- Justin Whalin as Scotty Barnhill
- Beau James as Timothy Nazlerod
- Patty Hearst as Juror No. 8
- Lonnie Horsey as Carl Pageant
- Traci Lords as Carl's date
- Tim Caggiano as Marvin A. Pickles
- Jeff Mandon as Howell Hawkins
- Kim Swann as Luann Hodges
- Kathy Fannon as Betty Sterner
- Patsy Grady Abrams as Mrs. Jenson
- Mary Vivian Pearce as Book buyer
- Rosemary Knower and Susan Lowe as Court groupies
- Suzanne Somers as herself
- Joan Rivers as herself
- L7 as Camel Lips
- Bess Armstrong (uncredited) as Eugene's dental secretary
- John Waters (uncredited) as voice of Ted Bundy
Production[edit]
During pre-production, Waters suggested other actresses for the role of Beverly including Meryl Streep, Kathy Bates and Glenn Close, before Turner was cast.[citation needed]
Films by Waters' creative influences, including Doris Wishman, Otto Preminger, William Castle and Herschell Gordon Lewis, are seen playing on television sets throughout the film.
The audio for Ted Bundy in one of Beverly's correspondences with the jailed killer is the voice of Waters.
Release[edit]
The film was screened out of competition at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.[5]
Critical reception[edit]
The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics, and currently holds a 63% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 48 reviews.[6][7]Roger Ebert awarded it an average two stars (out of a possible four) finding some of Waters' satire effective but feeling that Kathleen Turner's decision to portray her character's mental illness with realism instead of in a campy fashion, while brave, made the character difficult to laugh at, writing,[8] 'Watch Serial Mom closely and you'll realize that something is miscalculated at a fundamental level. Turner's character is helpless and unwitting in a way that makes us feel almost sorry for her—and that undermines the humor. She isn't funny crazy, she's sick crazy.'
However, other critics were more enthusiastic about the film and Turner's performance; Cosmopolitan stated in its review that 'Turner has never been so over the top hilarious!', and Scene magazine called the film 'Hysterically funny!'.
Critics lauded Waters' style and savage satire of the US's obsession with true crime, such as when Beverly's daughter, Misty, is seen selling T-shirts outside the courthouse where her mother's fate will be decided.
Box office[edit]
The film opened on April 13, 1994 and grossed $2,040,450 in its opening weekend, ranking #11. By the end of its run on August 4, the film had grossed $7,820,688 in domestic box office sales.[2] The film has become a cult classic since its release.[9]
Home media[edit]
Universal Studios and Focus Features released a collector's edition DVD of the film on May 6, 2008, replacing the original HBO Home Video DVD release, which is out of print. The new DVD release features an audio commentary with Waters and Turner. The film was released as a Collector's Edition Blu-ray from Shout! Factory on May 9, 2017.
References[edit]
- ^'Serial Mom (18)'. British Board of Film Classification. May 3, 1994. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
- ^ abcd'Serial Mom (1994)'. Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. August 4, 1994. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
- ^'A look inside Hollywood and the movies -- FEMALE TROUBLE : Who Could Possibly Follow Divine?'. The Los Angeles Times. September 13, 1992. Retrieved November 18, 2010.
- ^Katzman, Jason (September 28, 2006). '10 great dark comedies'. Today.com. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
- ^'Festival de Cannes: Serial Mom'. festival-cannes.com. Retrieved September 2, 2009.
- ^'Serial Mom (1994)'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
- ^Rainer, Peter (April 13, 1994). 'MOVIE REVIEW: 'Serial Mom' Good at Being Naughty : Movies: Director John Waters turns today's violence into comedy, and Kathleen Turner is furiously funny'. The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 1, 2011.
- ^Ebert, Roger. 'Serial Mom'. RogerEbert.com. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
- ^Frank the Movie Guy. Hidden Gem: Serial Mom. April 23, 2007. Retrieved on June 7, 2007
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There is even something about the way he shows sunlight bathing a breakfast table that's amusing; his Sutphins look like they live in a cereal commercial. He has the look and feel of their middle-American neighborhood just right, but the movie's comic premise doesn't go anywhere with it.
Beverly, the Serial Mom, is played by Kathleen Turner, a brave actress who has ventured here where several other actresses reportedly feared to tread. One thing I like about Turner is her willingness to tackle unlikely roles; her agent probably warned her against Danny DeVito's 'War of the Roses,' for example, but she and the equally fearless Michael Douglas took that exercise in matrimonial bloodshed and made it ghoulishly effective.
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In 'Serial Mom,' though, it's not so much that Turner's performance doesn't succeed, as that there's something sad about it that works against the humor. All serial killers are insane (at least I hope so). But in a comedy they need to extract some sort of zeal and manic joy from their atrocities; they have to give the audience permission, for the time being, to suspend the ordinary rules of good conduct.
In the slasher movies, the humor comes because the killers are seen as the victims of their programming, repeating the same obsessive behavior over and over again; we laugh because we see their mistake. In the classic horror films, we're amused because the evil is so stylized we can't take it seriously; Vincent Price licks his lips and rolls his eyes and intones his pseudo-Shakespearean imprecations, and his behavior takes the edge off his actions.
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Watch 'Serial Mom' closely, however, and you'll realize that something is miscalculated at a fundamental level. Turner's character is helpless and unwitting in a way that makes us feel almost sorry for her - and that undermines the humor. She isn't funny crazy, she's sick crazy. The movie shows her triggered by passing remarks (a garbage man says 'somebody ought to kill' a neighbor woman who refuses to recycle). She gets a weird light in her eyes that I guess we're supposed to laugh at, but, gee, it's kind of pathetic the way she goes into murderous action. Like 'Clifford,' this is a movie where the comedy doesn't work because at some underlying level the material generates emotions we feel uneasy about.
John Waters has, of course, been over some of this ground before; many of his films show a surface of inane suburban normality, pierced by the secret depravities of his inhabitants. After his early X-rated weirdo extravaganzas starring Divine, he scaled back to PG-land for 'Hairspray' (1988) and 'Cry Baby' (1990), invocations of the early 1960s and mid-1950s. Both films, like 'Serial Mom,' depend for a lot of their humor on his memories of a time when people seriously believed that cheese could come in cans.
His cast this time includes Ricki Lake (whom he discovered in 'Hairspray') as Misty Sutphin, the boy-crazy daughter who eventually begins to twig that something is wrong with mom; Sam Waterston as Beverly's unobservant husband, and Matthew Lillard as Chip, the brother whose bad grades at school inspire his mom to run down one of his teachers with her car. And, yes, that's Patricia Hearst in the jury box during Beverly's eventual trial (she inspires Beverly to write an urgent note to her attorney: 'Juror Number 8 is wearing white shoes after Labor Day!') The movie has some fun with how the family deals with their mother's serial murders (Misty sells T-shirts outside the courthouse), and of course Waters works in some movie parodies (although when Kathleen Turner spreads her legs in court in homage to Sharon Stone, it's more awkward and uncomfortable than funny).
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The more I think about this film, the more interested I am in why it doesn't work. The crucial problem is that since we feel some sympathy for the Kathleen Turner character, we can't laugh at her. But underneath that, somehow, is Waters' own essential niceness.
He may have directed some of the most shocking and scatological films of our time, but at some level he always expresses a tenderness for his characters, and in 'Serial Mom' he is simply not able to be cruel enough to Beverly Sutphin to make her available for our laughter.
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Waters seems typecast as the author of shocking suburban melodramas, but I suspect that trapped inside of him is the soul of an entirely different kind of storyteller.