Mildred Pierce (1945)

  • 1hr 51m
  • 88

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Writer:

Ranald MacDougall, James M. Cain, William Faulkner

Release Date:

Oct 20, 1945

Runtime:

1hr 51m

Synopsis

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Cast

  • Joan Crawford
  • Jack Carson
  • Zachary Scott
  • Eve Arden
  • Ann Blyth
  • Bruce Bennett
  • Lee Patrick
  • Moroni Olsen
  • Veda Ann Borg
  • Jo Ann Marlowe

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Metacritic

88
metacritic
Based on 16 Critics
7.8

USER SCORE (11)

Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Reviews
100

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]

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Metacritic review by Michael Wilmington
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
88

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.

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Josh Larsen
LarsenOnFilm
75

Though its craft is accomplished, the film never gets deep under one’s skin the way it ought to.

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Metacritic review by Jeremiah Kipp
Jeremiah Kipp
Slant Magazine
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