Serial Mom

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Kathleen Turner stands behind a chair with arms raised menacingly, while Patsy Grady Abrams sits unaware in front of her in a scene from the film Serial Mom.

Serial Mom

film by Waters [1994]

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John Waters
Going more mainstream: Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, and later films
Waters’s next movie, Serial Mom (1994), starred Kathleen Turner as the murderous titular character. His later films include Pecker (1998) and Cecil B. Demented (2000; in which an indie filmmaker and his crew kidnap a famous actress for their underground film), and A Dirty Shame (2004).
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Waters’s next movie, Serial Mom (1994), starred Kathleen Turner as the murderous titular character. His later films include Pecker (1998) and Cecil B. Demented (2000; in which an indie filmmaker and his crew kidnap a famous actress for their underground film), and A Dirty Shame (2004).
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Kathleen Turner
…a private investigator; the comedy Serial Mom (1994); The Virgin Suicides (1999), the feature-film directorial debut of Sofia Coppola; and Marley & Me (2008), a comedy starring Jennifer Aniston. One of Turner’s best-known performances was off-camera, when she provided the husky alluring voice for the cartoon sexpot Jessica Rabbit in…
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…a private investigator; the comedy Serial Mom (1994); The Virgin Suicides (1999), the feature-film directorial debut of Sofia Coppola; and Marley & Me (2008), a comedy starring Jennifer Aniston. One of Turner’s best-known performances was off-camera, when she provided the husky alluring voice for the cartoon sexpot Jessica Rabbit in…
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