Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.
Acting
Kathleen Turner's deranged smile should be studied in schools.
Direction
John Waters at his most accessible—still absolutely unhinged.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp it'll leave paper cuts.

Director
John Waters
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kathleen Turner based Beverly's voice on her own mother, then cranked it to eleven.
Waters wrote this during the Menendez brothers trial, directly satirizing America's obsession with turning killers into celebrities.