She hides at the video rental store where Chip works, but a customer, Mrs. Police detectives confirm that Beverly's fingerprints match those at the Sterner crime scene and attempt to arrest her, but she escapes. The church service ends in pandemonium when a suspicious sound causes everyone to panic and flee the church. Meanwhile, the rest of the family 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 murders of the Sterners. She stabs Betty with scissors borrowed from Rosemary, and causes an air conditioner to fall on Ralph, who caught her killing his wife. 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.
That evening at dinner, Chip comments that his friend Scotty thinks that she is the killer.
5^0 Exponentīeverly 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. The next day, Misty is upset when Carl Pageant stands her up for a date. 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 him over with her car, and is witnessed by Luann Hodges, a young woman smoking marijuana nearby. After the police and her family leave, Beverly disguises her voice to make obscene phone calls to Dottie, because Dottie stole a parking space from Beverly. However, she is secretly a serial killer, murdering people over the most trivial of perceived sleights, including mere faux pas.During breakfast, Detectives Pike and Gracey arrive to question the family about the vulgar harassment of their neighbor, Dottie Hinkle. PlotBeverly 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. Contents.The film was released theatrically in the United States on Apto mixed to positive reviews from critics, but was a box office bomb, grossing nearly $8 million from a $13 million budget.
Patty Hearst, Suzanne Somers, Joan Rivers, Traci Lords, and Brigid Berlin make cameo appearances in the film. Serial Mom is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by John Waters, and starring Kathleen Turner as the title character, Sam Waterston as her husband, and Ricki Lake and Matthew Lillard as her children. I gave it a 7 rather than something higher because the action around her is okay but delivered more as a set-up for her various exercises in family values, and the plot itself doesn't seem driven by anything other than her proclivities for a particular problem solving approach.Ä«ut it is a very entertaining film, though I wouldn't watch it with a kid under the age of 15, however jaded by the media today's youths may seem to be.
The various strategems she uses to distract witnesses at her trial are delivered with the precision of a knife and she does more acting in the defendant's chair than most actors manage in a typical Hollywood flick today.
She is protective, proactive, and supportive where her family is concerned, just a bit more so than is good for her or the rest of the world.
I really enjoyed this movie because Kathleen Turner and John Waters just let loose with the demented psychotic energy of a parent who takes many legitimate parental urges to the next level - or maybe the next 5 levels.