![]() ![]() Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) is an aspirational homemaker who takes care of her family and home with the skill of a drill sergeant in suburban Baltimore (Waters’ favorite locale and hometown). ![]() In Serial Mom, Waters has a new misfit to join his gallery of lovable grotesques. John Waters has a sick sense of humor, but he’s also, at heart, a big ole softie, and he loves his characters. Waters -whose filmography is marked by cartoonish violence – also is critiquing horror fandom – but at the same time honoring it and skewering it. Waters wrote a satire about celebrity culture – particularly how criminals find themselves becoming celebrities themselves. It’s too mainstream to fit into his earlier gonzo oeuvre, but too strange to fit into what Hollywood cinema was doing at the time. ![]() Though it was gifted with a big budget, glossy cinematography, an in-demand composer, and a big movie star, the film isn’t regarded as Waters’ best. John Waters’ 1994 comedy Serial Mom is one of his most underrated. ![]()
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