Mildred Pierce (1945)

Name: Mildred Pierce (1945)
Duration: 1 h 51 min

1hr 51m

1hr 51m
4.1/5 (12.5K)
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A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter. More Details »

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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

Letterboxd User Reviews

4.1

RATINGS 449 FANS

4.1

Dec 26, 2013

Never have children.

1.8K Likes

Timcop

May 10, 2018

Kay: *coughs once* My grandma: Oh she's gonna die.

1.0K Likes

Hannah

Jan 19, 2018

DARTH VEDA

934 Likes

Sara Clements
Mar 20, 2019

Veda: *breathes* Me: ELECTRIC CHAIR!

807 Likes

cassandra

Oct 17, 2018

men: gross, pointless children: ungrateful, demonic mildred: deserved better

684 Likes

eely

Jul 12, 2017

Imagine not loving Joan Crawford... seems like a sad way to live.

394 Likes

cassandra
May 1, 2021

Way more deranged than I remembered. Imagine what Mildred could have done if she had encountered a single stable person in her life.

353 Likes

Josh Larsen

Jun 12, 2022

Birth Control Effectiveness Condoms: 95% Birth Control: 99% Watching this movie: 100%

351 Likes

Quintin

Oct 18, 2020

Mildred Pierce is about… well, it’s in the title. It’s about her ambition, work ethic and determination, done in a way that is both melodramatic and thrilling. It opens with a brief murder mystery but eventually turns into a different type of “here’s-how-it-happened” story,…

245 Likes

Sam

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Freddie A loved

Mildred Pierce

I love this film. I had a high expectations going in knowing it was a classic especially Joan Crawford and it did not disappoint it was filled with twist, drama, betrayal, mother and daughter angst. It was like mummy dearest almost though I haven’t seen that. expectations met

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Granger Smith liked

Mildred Pierce

Didn’t think I would like it of first impression as it was on my uni module, watched it and really liked the film over all

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Vogue Italia loved

Mildred Pierce

brilliant! ann blyth is so evil here oh my god, joan crawford is stellar, and eve arden is phenomenal :)

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Cypher liked

Mildred Pierce

The amount of INVESTMENT my film class had watching this was extremely fun- this was my endgame fr

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nina leal loved

Mildred Pierce

so freaking good

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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]

Michael Wilmington

Chicago Tribune

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.

Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

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

Jeremiah Kipp

Slant Magazine

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