Serial Mom

1994 • 1h 34m •

Comedy Crime

MOVIEVIBE Rating

★ 6.7/10

791 reviews

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Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.

"Every mom wants to be wanted, but not for murder!"

Top Billed Cast

Kathleen Turner

Beverly Sutphin

Sam Waterston

Eugene Sutphin

Ricki Lake

Misty Sutphin

Matthew Lillard

Chip Sutphin

Scott Morgan

Detective Pike

Walt MacPherson

Detective Gracey

Justin Whalin

Scotty

Patricia Dunnock

Birdie

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

K kevin2019 Verified TMDB Critic

2024-09-26

"Serial Mom" - which, by the way, is not for the faint hearted - is a wonderfully inappropriate guilty pleasure packed with lots of macabre fun and its wholesome depiction of life in American suburbia resembles David Lynch's contentious "Blue Velvet" (1986), but like most things in this life everything just looks too good to be true and that is simply because it is. The nicest neighbours can have the darkest secrets of all and the most hospitable and unassuming people can also be the most abominable monsters. Beverly Sutphin is a case in point. She is a charming and delightful house wife, moth...