C L O S I N G . N I G H T
Thursday, June 27
"Serial Mom"
8:30 p.m. Woody's Warehouse, 209 S. Jennings Ave.

Happy homemaker Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) has a charmed life ­ a beautiful suburban home, a successful dentist husband (Sam Waterston), and two normal teen-agers, Misty (Ricki Lake) and Chip (Matthew Lillard). But she also has a good deal of underlying rage waiting to escape ... Just be sure to follow her rules: Be polite to your neighbor, always recycle, rewind your videotapes, and never, ever wear white shoes after Labor Day. When one of her son's teachers speaks disparagingly of the boy at a parent-teacher conference, Bev runs the instructor over in the school parking lot. Suddenly she has an insatiable taste for murder. Six homicides later, the cops get wise to her crimes, which are committed with weapons ranging from a leg of lamb to a fireplace poker. A media frenzy ensues, turning an unrepentant Beverly into a media celebrity. A serial-killer comedy mixed with courtroom-drama social satire, this raunchy effort was John Waters' return to R-rated fare after the sweet-natured duo of Hairspray and Cry-Baby. Suburban life is duly skewered here as the serenity of Beverly's upper middle-class surroundings are continually sullied by her disturbingly comedic acts of violence. Rated R, 1994, 95 min., 35mm, color.

Writer/Director: John Waters; Starring: Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston. Ricki Lake, Matthew Lillard, Justin Whalin, Mink Stole, Patricia Hearst, Suzanne Somers