
When Mildred Pierce's out-of-work husband leaves her for another woman, Mildred decides to raise her two daughters on her own. Despite Mildred's financial successes in the restaurant business, her oldest daughter, Veda, resents her mother for degrading their social status. In the midst of a police investigation after the death of her second husband, Mildred must evaluate her own freedom and her complicated relationship with her daughter.... (Full plot summary below)
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When Mildred Pierce's out-of-work husband leaves her for another woman, Mildred decides to raise her two daughters on her own. Despite Mildred's financial successes in the restaurant business, her oldest daughter, Veda, resents her mother for degrading their social status. In the midst of a police investigation after the death of her second husband, Mildred must evaluate her own freedom and her complicated relationship with her daughter.
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| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonMichael Curtiz’s Mildred Pierce remains a rip-roaring entertainment. |
| Monthly Film BulletinMFB CriticsJoan Crawford presents a consistent and sustained characterisation of the harassed Mrs. Pierce fighting against relentless spiritual degradation. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullThe luscious blacks and whites of this melodramatic noir classic suit Crawford's kabuki-like visage perfectly. |
| Empire MagazineAngie ErrigoWow! It may not be art or good taste, but throbbing melodrama doesn't come with more conviction. Even to those usually turned off by the tough Crawford, Mildred is compelling. |
| Seanax.comSean AxmakerYou don't think of Michael Curtiz, the great house director of Warner Bros. spectacles and prestige pictures, as one of the great noir directors but the opening twenty minutes or so is a master class in film noir directing... |
| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsThis great film is a more subtle, nuanced beast than expected. |
| FanboyNation.comSean MulvihillMildred Pierce is a film that defies typical genre classification for its era. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawFor its control of narrative, its photography of the vanished suburban California of the 1940s, and for its compelling central performance from Crawford, Michael Curtiz’s noir thriller is utterly gripping. |
| CineVueChristopher MachellA pitch dark noir whose eponymous anti-heroine (Joan Crawford) is surely one of the most compellingly flawed women of the genre. |
| The A.V. ClubDonna BowmanA masterful weepie adapted from a James M. Cain novel. |