Written and directed by John Waters, the movie follows a seemingly-sweet suburban housewife, Beverly Sutphin (Turner), who has a double life as a cold-blooded killer. The Three’s Company star ...

Photo-Illustration: Vulture. Photo: Mary Evans/Polar/Everett Collection Turner’s Beverly Sutphin is the perfect housewife, aside from, you know, all the carnage and whatnot. John Waters’s 1994 ...

Once John Waters developed Serial Mom, he had the difficult task of finding an actor who could play Beverly Sutphin and make her both likable and a killer. Waters reportedly considered a slew of ...

It's likely that he had the aforementioned Texas cheerleader mom Wanda Holloway and other similar figures like her in mind ...