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Serial Mom (1994)

★ 6.7 · 759 ratings on TMDB

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

Serial Mom poster★ 6.7

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.

DirectorJohn Waters
CastJustin Whalin, Kathleen Turner, Lonnie Horsey, Matthew Lillard, Mink Stole, Patricia Dunnock
GenresComedy, Crime
The emergence reading

Serial Mom keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing violence, media, family, justice, identity.

zero-distanceUSviolencemediafamilyjusticeidentity
Also inFilms about justiceFilms about familyFilms about identity
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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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