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Also, when it opened it had been a really long and terrible winter all over America, and it was the first nice, beautiful spring weekend all over the country. It would have failed twice it would have failed later in life when these movies do find success.ДЄs the years go on, Serial Mom gets more and more fans, and does better and better than when it came out. But, if I had done what they had wanted me to, we wouldnвЂ™t be discussing it today. I guess from their point of view, it didnвЂ™t make a lot of money. A couple of them are dead, so they canвЂ™t defend themselves. I donвЂ™t name any executives, because the movieвЂ™s still out there and itвЂ™s still playing. I was astonished that happened, but it did happen on Serial Mom. So when theyвЂ™d finally saw it theyвЂ™d freak out, even though it was the exact script that IвЂ™d said I was going to make. Test screenings, and studio executives who basically never even read the script in the first place, even though I had a development deal. There are obvious benefits to that, like having more money to spend, but what did you find to be the biggest challenge you faced when not making the film independently?

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This was your second movie made within the Hollywood system. And, I get letters from prisoners a lot вЂ“ I donвЂ™t answer them, but I get a lot of good ones from people that have read my books. ItвЂ™s pretty important to people that are in prison. I do still have friends in prison that I visit, and I think that if you know someone in prison you should go visit them. I guess I read In Cold Blood, you know? I went to a lot of trials and I wrote about that in Shock Value, and I taught in prison, which I wrote about in Crackpot. How did your personal interest in true crime spur the idea for Serial Mom? ThereвЂ™s Psycho! ThereвЂ™s millions of evil mother movies. ThereвЂ™s a lot of evil mother movies вЂ“ thereвЂ™s just not that many good movies where the mother is evil. I think we would have competition with Patty McCormack after she made The Bad Seed she made a much better movie called Mommy. Well, I think that we might have competition with Mommie Dearest. Outside of your own filmography, who are some of your favorite movie mothers? Serial Mom has cornered the market for motherвЂ™s day cable programming. Talk about reactionary! She overreacted to small, small displeasures. I always said she meant well, Serial Mom, she wasnвЂ™t evil. The problem is that everyone has little things which get on their nerves every day that they could kill pill people for, but they donвЂ™t do it literally they do it figuratively. A lot of the things that Serial Mom disliked, I sympathize with her. I donвЂ™t like summer white worn after Labor Day. I hate people who chew gum вЂ“ it gets on my nerves. And, I guess, a little bit of her is Serial Mom. John Waters: ThatвЂ™s because I think it is my best movie, in a weird way. Do you know why she loved this one so much? To celebrate this deluxe release, John Waters took some time out to look back with us on the making of Serial Mom.ДЄustin Trunick : YouвЂ™ve mentioned in the past that Serial Mom was your motherвЂ™s favorite of your movies. Over time, though, itвЂ™s gathered a big following of fans whoвЂ™ve caught this dark comedy on cable or home video. In spite of fun performances from Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake, Matthew Lillard, and Mink Stole, it failed to capture an audience on its initial release. Gloriously over-the-top and perhaps more satirical now than ever, Serial Mom arrives this week in a new CollectorвЂ™s Edition Blu-ray (just in time for MotherвЂ™s Day.) Following the Johnny Depp-starring Cry-Baby, it was the second (and last) studio film from independent film maverick John Waters.

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Dubbed the вЂњSerial MomвЂќ by excited tabloids and newscasters, her high-profile trial goes as far off the rails as the media circus thatвЂ™s risen around it. When the police eventually do catch up with her, she becomes a media sensation. Beverly embarks on a bloody murder spree the likes of which no one would expect from the happily married homemaker.

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Deep down, however, minor annoyances вЂ“ a teacher criticizing her son, a neighborвЂ™s unwillingness to recycle вЂ“ manage to get under her skin and build up to the point where she snaps. Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) seems like your typical mother of two, a happy wife and community pillar in her suburban Baltimore neighborhood.