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.

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Budget

$13,000,000

Runtime

94 min

Box Office

$7,820,688

Released Apr 1994

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John Waters

Written byJohn Waters

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Kathleen Turner
Beverly Sutphin
Sam Waterston
Eugene Sutphin
Ricki Lake
Misty Sutphin
Matthew Lillard
Chip Sutphin
Scott Morgan
Detective Pike
Walt MacPherson
Detective Gracey

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