22nd Calgary Underground Film Festival

April 17-27, 2025

13th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival

November 19-23, 2025

Serial Mom: 30Th Anniversary

United States, 1994: 95 minutes
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Globe Cinema
Wed, Apr 24 9:00 PM Sold Out

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She's the perfect all-American parent: a great cook and homemaker, a devoted recycler, and a woman who'll literally kill to keep her children happy. A special 30th Anniversary Screening of the 1994 cult classic with a live intro by John Waters!

Director John Waters puts a twist on the everyday mediocrity of suburban life in the domestically devious SERIAL MOM. See Kathleen Turner like never before as Beverly Sutphin, the seemingly perfect homemaker who will stop at nothing to rid the neighborhood of anyone failing to live up to her moral code. It's a killer comedy that will take you over the edge with laughter.

TICKETING INFO
$12 General / $10 for members, students & seniors (multi-packs & festival passes can also be used)
Tickets can also be bought as part of a package to see JOHN WATERS: DEVIL'S ADVOCATE ($80 VIP or $60 Regular)

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Cannes Film Festival 1994

DIRECTOR'S BIO
John Waters has written and directed sixteen movies including PINK FLAMINGOS, FEMALE TROUBLE, POLYESTER, HAIRSPRAY, CRY BABY, SERIAL MOM and A DIRTY SHAME. He is also the author of ten books, a recording artist, photographer, spoken-word performer, and actor. Waters is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He is currently on the Board of Trustees for the Baltimore Museum of Art as well as the Maryland Film Festival Board. He has been honored by the Lincoln Center, the British Film Institute, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), the Maryland Institute College of Arts (MICA), the School of Visual Arts (SVA), the French Minister of Culture, the Writers Guild of America East, and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

press for Serial Mom: 30Th Anniversary

"A loose remake of FEMALE TROUBLE with Polyester's subversively accessible polish, SERIAL MOM is the strongest film of the post-midnight-movie chapter of John Waters's career"
- Slant Magazine
"Sharply funny, wonderfully snarky, and a better satire of our true crime obsession than most anything this century—it remains a prescient, properly fun film without compare."
- The Stranger

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Narrative / Comedy / Crime / Retro / Thriller / Suspense

English
95 minutes

special guest

Director John Waters in attendance for extended introduction of the film!

credits

Director
John Waters

Executive Producer
Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr.

Producers
Mark Tarlov
John Fiedler

Screenwriter
John Waters

Cinematographers
Robert M. Stevens
Erica Huggins

Cast
Kathleen Turner
Sam Waterston
Ricki Lake
Matthew Lillard

Music
Basil Poledouris

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