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- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 51 m
- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 51 m
Summary A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 51 m
- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 51 m
Mildred Pierce
7.5
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Summary A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
88
100% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Curtiz holds you in his master grip, creating one of those WW II-era California noirs that keeps swinging you from darkness to sunlight, love to hatred, happiness to the pits of despair and death. [18 Nov 2005, p.C6]
A masterful weepie adapted from a James M. Cain novel.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
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A pitch dark noir whose eponymous anti-heroine (Joan Crawford) is surely one of the most compellingly flawed women of the genre.
Mildred Pierce is a somewhat reckless mixture of film noir and soap opera. It opens with a murder and then proceeds to run on revelations and betrayals and wild swings of fortune. Yet the high-wire act works, largely because Mildred Pierce has the right trapeze artist dangling in the air.
James Cain's novel of the treacherous life in Southern California that sets house-wife-turned waitress-turned-successful restauranteur (Crawford) against her own daughter (Blyth) in competition for the love of playboy Zachary Scott, is brought fastidiously and bleakly to life by Curtiz' direction, Ernest Haller's camerawork, and Anton Grot's magnificent sets.
The archetypal Joan Crawford movie.
Mildred Pierce lacks the driving force of stimulating drama, and its denouement hardly comes as a surprise, but it is cut from a pattern that has been hugely successful in the past and it probably will be this time too.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
National Film Preservation Board, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
