Serial Mom

This movie is such a classic! I remember it like it was yesterday waiting for it to come on HBO or Cinemax after seeing it being scheduled in the little paper books you would get monthly showing you what would be playing and at what time. I would stay up LATE just to watch this before we got a VCR where i would record it LOL! It has aged well and if you remember the movie at all then dont wait, buy it.

My favorite Kathleen Turner movie. It’s a somewhat whacky comedy, for sure. It’s not for everyone, not for kids, but I think it’s funny.

I hesitated to pick p the Blu Ray for a while because it only had one new feature I hadn't seen before - it wasn't like it was a Criterion release. However, the feature in question, which was a conversation between John Waters, Kathleen Turner and Mink Stole is well worth the price. Including tax, $19.11 isn't a lot of money for a Blu-Ray and it is packed with features and featurettes. Most of them, which include interviews with Waters, Ricki Lake, Patricia Hearst, Sam Waterston, Turner and Stole, were from a previous DVD release which I still have. The picture and the sound are much clearer, and somehow watching a Blu-Ray sort of makes me more aware of other images in each scene. I paid more attention to the surroundings than I had before. I had thought of putting on the old DVD and wonder if the same things would be in the frame, but talked myself out of it "They're not putting in new edits or reshooting scenes from 25 years ago, stupid, they've always been there".I gave it 5 stars, of course. I've always thought of it as a 4-star film anyway, but this conversation feature was not only informative and interesting, but it was also very nice and touching. Waters' and Stole's friendship goes back nearly 55 years and it was very sweet watching them reminisce. Kathleen Turner was very witty and seemed like one of the Dreamland gang, not at all as a big star. In fact, Turner relates a story of Michael Douglas being nervous about her doing this film because they were yet to film the sequel to Romancing the Stone. "You're not...you're not doing this one, are you..." "Uh, well, yeah, I am". It's a perfect feature which could only have been made better if Patricia Hearst had also joined in, even though she was only on screen for 15 minutes tops - hmmm.....makes me think of Warhol....I like that.Years ago, I'd resisted the fact that bigger names were appearing in his films because I thought that would rob it of its purity and independent innocence. No such thing. Sure a movie might have a "big star" in it, but there are still hassles not unlike ones which greeted John, Divine, Mink, David, Bonnie, etc., as far back as Multiple Maniacs. Tab Hunter was the big name in "Polyester", yet the neighbors still hated the film crew and actors when they filmed in the middle of a suburban Baltimore block and made way too much noise.

Love it

As chessy and funny as i remember it as a child lol. DVD had no issues.

Dorky, funny, strange

I cracked up at so many parts of this movie.

Very funny movie