Editing Serial Mom (section)

==Production==
Actresses considered for the role of Beverly Sutphin before Turner was cast included [[Meryl Streep]], [[Kathy Bates]], [[Glenn Close]], and [[Julie Andrews]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jacobs |first=Matthew |date=2023-04-28 |title=Kathleen Turner Answers Every Question We Have About Serial Mom |url=https://www.vulture.com/2023/04/kathleen-turner-answers-all-our-questions-about-serial-mom.html |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]] |language=en-us |archive-date=May 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230517233751/https://www.vulture.com/2023/04/kathleen-turner-answers-all-our-questions-about-serial-mom.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Radar/>

Films by Waters' creative influences, including [[Doris Wishman]], [[Otto Preminger]], [[William Castle]], and [[Herschell Gordon Lewis]], are seen playing on television sets throughout the film.<ref name="Abrams">{{Cite web |last=Abrams |first=Simon |date=May 9, 2017 |title=Defense for the Damned: John Waters on "Serial Mom" {{!}} Interviews |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/defense-for-the-damned-john-waters-on-serial-mom |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=RogerEbert.com |language=en |archive-date=May 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230517234950/https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/defense-for-the-damned-john-waters-on-serial-mom |url-status=live }}</ref>

The audio for [[Ted Bundy]] in one of Beverly's correspondences with the jailed killer is the voice of Waters.<ref name=":3" />

===Post-production===
The film had a troubled [[post-production]], marked by conflict between Waters and Savoy Pictures. In his 2019 book ''Mr. Know-It-All'', Waters states that studio executives who viewed an early cut objected to its violence and dark comedy. They demanded the film be substantially re-edited and given a different ending, which Waters refused to do.<ref name=Waters>{{cite book|last=Waters|first=John|author-link=John Waters|date=2019|title=Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-bduDwAAQBAJ|publisher=[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]|isbn=978-0374214968|access-date=July 11, 2023|archive-date=July 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715042230/https://books.google.com/books?id=-bduDwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|73–74}} Acrimony between the two sides intensified following a poor [[test screening]], which Waters believed was deliberately held before a conservative audience unlikely to enjoy the film. He contrasted it with a more receptive screening for members of the film industry in Los Angeles.<ref name = Waters/>{{rp|73}} Turner spoke about the ordeal to gossip columnist [[Liz Smith (journalist)|Liz Smith]], who was a friend. Smith intervened with a column titled "Leave Serial Mom Alone", publicizing the situation, and Savoy eventually relented on its demands.<ref name = Waters/>{{rp|75}}