Continuity mistake: During the opening, when the fly finally lands on a coaster, Beverly Sutphin swats it quickly and removes the swatter. Cut to a close-up, and the swatter and dead fly are still there.
Serial Mom (1994)
Plot summary
Directed by: John Waters
Starring: Matthew Lillard, Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake
A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom (Beverly R. Sutphin, played by Kathleen Turner) takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase, and the police get closer to the truth, threatening the family's picture perfect world.
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More mistakes in Serial Mom
Misty Sutphin: He killed people, mom.
Beverly Sutphin: We all have our bad days.
Trivia: Director John Waters has a voice-over cameo as the voice of Ted Bundy in the tape that's found.
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