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Plot Summary
What Veda wants, her mother Mildred Pierce provides. Even if Mildred must end her middle-class marriage, climb atop the male-dominated business world and marry a wealthy man she doesn't love. "I'll do anything," Mildred says in explaining her love for her daughter. But does anything include murder?
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
82%- Reviews Counted: 34
- Fresh: 28
- Rotten: 6
- Average Rating: 7.7/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Joan Crawford is playing a most troubled lady, and giving a sincere and generally effective characterization of same.
Rotten: All this is good melodrama and fair entertainment, but it is much closer to the waltz-time schmalz of Kathleen Norris than to the fox-trot brass of James M. Cain.
Fresh: A class feature, showmanly produced by Jerry Wald and tellingly directed by Michael Curtiz.
Fresh: The archetypal Joan Crawford movie.
Customer Reviews
Joan Crawford at Her Best
This is one of my all-time favorites and a performance by Joan Crawford that I can't help but measure all others by. You'll watch this movie over and over again guaranteed!
Good
Another great movie from Warner bros.
Awesome
Magnificent from beginning to end. Simply one of the very best films ever made. I never tire of it .
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- $17.99
- Genre: Drama
- Released: 1945
- © 1945 Mildred Pierce Turner Entertainment Co. Package Design & Supplementary Material Compilation Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
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