Serial Mom

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Summary: Hilarious Black Comedy
Review: This movie was great! Kathleen Turner was trmendous in this orginal and entertaining film. This is one movie you can watch more than once without becoming bored and sleepy.

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Summary: JOHN WATERS STILL DOES IT THE BEST
Review: I hate it when people criticize Waters' films now for being "too soft", I swear a person can't win! This movie is brilliant and if it had come just months later would have been a mirror to the O.J. Simpson case. Kathleen Turner is one of our greatest actresses, what happened to her career?, and totally deserved an oscar nomination. Buy this DVD. Whenever you get a commentary by JW you get more than enough.

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Summary: DON'T DISMISS THIS ONE
Review: Okay, so you might have been expecting "Pink Flamingos." Well, this ain't it. Waters seems more and more to be working for subtlety these days. Not to say that we don't miss extreme irreverence, ghastly acts of violence, disgusting scenes of bestialty, coprophagia and the like. We do, believe me, we certainly do - but give the man a break: how much of that can you do once it's done? Here he explores suburbia's grimy underbelly as only he can. Kathleen Turner's controlled portrayal of the demonic Beverly Sutphin is remarkable, overshadowed only by Mink Stole's manic Dottie Hinkle - reminiscent of the pre-Mortville Peggy Gravel in "Desperate Living." She's one actress who's never been given her due. The rest of the cast is able, even if their performances are not entirely memorable. Waters films are always ensemble pieces, after all - the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. The cinematography is...well...beautiful in many places, and the use of bright colors and the springtime shooting provide a perfect contrast to the dark undercurrents. This won't be everyone's cuppa tea. Afficionados of the earlier Waters will cry, "Sellout!" Those expecting your standard black comedy will cry, "Disgusting!" Let 'em. This is a fine picture on its own merits, and if you'll put aside any preconceptions, you'll enjoy it and look forward to seeing it again and again.

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Summary: non-stop fun!
Review: Some people may see this film and be disgusted by it's humor, but for me I found it refreshing. A change of pace from the usual type of comedies. We first meet the family and they seem like the perfect family at first, obviously too perfect so something's up. Which would be the mother's short temper for people who do not share her values of family, environment, and common courtesy. She is willing to go as far as killing anyone who does not agree. The movie is fun, hilarious, and different. I am not a fan of Kathleen Turner, but she did a great job. Just when you rent it, be kind and rewind. GRADE: A

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Summary: This movie rocks!
Review: I have only one thang 2 say. This movie rules

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Summary: "All That Waters Allows"
Review: A delightful comedy of bad manners. Waters returns to his Douglas Sirk-homage mode to fashion another skewered portrait of the suburbs as he did so hilariously in "Polyester" and the opening scenes of "Desperate Living". This movie is what Sirk's "All That Heaven Allows" might be like if Jane Wyman were a chipper serial killer with a loving family instead of a neglected widow who pines after tree surgeon Rock Hudson (Kathleen Turner here seems to pine after offscreen Ted Bundy). Manners in Sirk are part of a ruthless social code and those who breach it become outcasts; in Waters, breached manners are grounds for no less than homicide, a modernist spin on things if ever there was one. My favorite part of movie is the amazing shot of Turner brandishing a knive onstage at the L7 concert before setting one of her son's friends ("Buckle up, Scotty!") on fire; it exactly duplicates the shot in "Psycho" of Mother, film history's most indelible serial mom, smiling insanely at the fruit cellar door before attacking Vera Miles. Scary!

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Summary: John Waters is a genius!
Review: 'Serial Mom' is about a seemingly June Cleaver type housewife who goes on a killing spree. She kills one person because they took her parking spot at a grocery store, another because they didn't rewind their rented video tapes!!! Matthew Lillard is so awesome as her son, Chip. Ricki Lake is her daughter Misty, and oh yeah, the mom herself is Kathleen Turner. This movie is sooo fun.

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Summary: A Masterpiece! John Waters (genius) Delivers comedic gold!!!
Review: This Hilarios spoof of a family with a serial killer for a mother. John Waters writes an exception role for Kathleen Turner (Beverly Sutphin) who terrorizes a neighborhood in Baltimore (where else). L7 also has a great cameo playing a band called The "Camel Lips", wait till you see their costumes. You will not regret purchasinbg this film!!!!

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Summary: NO good @ all!!!
Review: Please Mr. Waters don't ever make a movie to appeal to the so called main stream folk! I thought this was a bust from the word go! Kathleen Turner is a bad actress and does not have to try and work at being bad. Edith Massey and Divine must be turning in their graves. I can only pray that Mr. Waters next film "PECKER" is back to his older films. Crybaby was good but Flamingos,Desperate Living are the best of the Waters films!!!!

We love you Mr. Waters. But this movie SUCKED!!!

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Summary: Barry Manilow has never sounded so good!
Review: This movie is only rivaled by the classic Mommie Dearest! We love Beverly Suftkin! NO white shoes after Labor day!!! And remember kids, wear your seatbelts!