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This is on Amazon Prime for free. I decided to rewatch it after not having seen it since I was a little older than the age Christina is portrayed in this movie. When I first saw it I found it disturbing. I recently saw it on a list of so bad they’re funny movies. But when I watched it I still just found it disturbing. Even with over the op melodramatic acting there is just nothing funny about child abuse.
Also, apparently Christina in real life is still alive and is now 81.
Anything with Faye Dunaway in her prime is worth watching. I watch Mommie Dearest, Bonnie & Clyde and especially Network at least once a year. From what we know now, apparently her slightly whacked-out approach to every part came naturally.
If you are indeed a Japanfan, presumably you worship Satsuko Hara as I do. Now there was movie star charisma.
Anyone know about a similar movie where the following scene takes place? I hadn’t seen Mommie Dearest in years and was actually expecting this scene. However, I guess it was from another movie about an abusive mother. I’m guessing it was a random Lifetime movie from the 1990s, but maybe someone knows.
Anyway, the whole movie the mother is evil, but at one point she buys her daughter a goldfish which they are taking home in a glass bowl. The daughter is happy and they are about to go into a car when they see the evil mother’s ex-husband. The evil mother goes insane and starts yelling culminating with her shattering the goldfish bowl on the street. The camera shows the fish flopping around amid the broken glass as the scene ends.
It still sticks out in mind and seems like it would be right at home in this movie. But apparently it was in something else.
They showed it back to back on Mother's Day. I actually thought the scene where Joan was telling off the men
in the Board of Director's meeting very good. And her instincts were right - they were being chauvinistic.
And Joan also said in the movie, "The fans are life or death to me." She wanted to please her fans.
Not a lot of current spoiled actors care about their fans.
Mildred Pierce was a really good movie.
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