Who would you rather be? he seems to ask. He hasn't, after all, lost his sense of values. Waters's tame approach, there are still some disgusting moments in "Serial Mom," including a close-up of what looks like a human liver skewered on a fireplace poker.
The media frenzy about the latest mega-star killer is too close to reality to work as satire.ĭespite Mr. When the police close in on Beverly while she is riding to church with the whole family, she wonders, "Do you think I need to call a lawyer?" The astute Chip answers, "You need an agent." Suzanne Somers, in a cameo role, suddenly wants to make a mini-series of Beverly's life. Like all Waters films, "Serial Mom" is uneven and often predictable. Waterston, escaping from many earnest roles, shows a flair for understated comedy that works perfectly for the befuddled husband. Turner plays the good mother with such sunny conviction that her murderous side seems plausibly self-righteous.
An especially nice touch is the way Beverly cheerily sings Barry Manilow's "Daybreak" while cleaning her house or driving to another murder. Waters's flair for capturing the excruciating details of suburban life.
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Beverly is the kind of matron who would profess to be disgusted by a John Waters movie while secretly relishing every cathartic moment. As soon as the detectives and her loving family are out the door, Beverly displays girlish delight at muttering dirty words in an anonymous prank call to Dottie.
A detective who questions the Sutphins even points out how remarkably Beverly brings to mind June Cleaver, though he misses a crucial clue about the obscene note sent to their whiny neighbor, Dottie Hinkle (Mink Stole). Waters's favorite twilight zones: 50's sitcoms that shaped a generation of dysfunctional families. Although the story is set in the present, Beverly seems stuck in one of Mr. The movie is milder than its premise makes it sound. When Misty (Ricki Lake) is stood up by a handsome date, she will regret crying to her mother, "I wish he were dead." How dare a teacher suggest that Chip (Matthew Lillard) may need therapy? Beverly responds with normal disbelief, then finds the teacher in the parking lot and runs him down with her car. But the strain of being a perfect mom is showing, for Beverly has developed a tendency to murder anyone who gets on her nerves. She is a Baltimore housewife with perfectly bobbed hair, a sparkling clean kitchen, a dentist husband (Sam Waterston) and two teen-age children with names that seem lifted from "Ozzie and Harriet": Chip and Misty. Kathleen Turner leaps into the most delicious role she has had in years as Beverly Sutphin. In "Serial Mom" he takes to heart the idea that being the All-American mother is enough to drive a woman crazy. John Waters is just the man to do it, for he sends up only what he deeply adores.
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.If you're going to build a career on bad taste, sooner or later you'll have to tackle the most sacred icon of all, motherhood.
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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. 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. 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. 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). Beverly Sutphin ( Kathleen Turner) is the perfect suburban housewife and mother.
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