![]() In short order (no pun intended), Mildred gets a job as a waitress, soon realizes she can make better desserts than the owner is serving and moves from pie baking to making lots of dough as a restaurant owner herself.Įven as a child, Mildred's elder daughter, Veda (Morgan Turner), displays a chilling mix of ambition and arrogance, hissing spiteful disdain when she finds out that her mother has taken a job as a lowly waitress. O'Byrne), packing and has to find a way to support herself and her two young daughters. In its own way, "Mildred Pierce" is a pre-feminist novel about a sister doin' it for herself during the Depression after she sends her philandering husband, Bert ( Brian F. Except for a few scenes, he wins the bout. ![]() Cain novel, but what director Todd Haynes has done with the material is something else entirely, and something not to be missed.Įliciting extraordinary performances from a cast headed by Oscar winner Kate Winslet in the title role and with a visually thrilling attention to period detail and rich cinematography by Ed Lachman, Haynes both celebrates and wrestles with the potboiling melodrama of Cain's story. HBO's new miniseries "Mildred Pierce," launching Sunday night, shares a title with the 1945 film that won Joan Crawford her only Oscar and is based on the same James M. ![]()
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