Mildred Pierce (1945)
Please don't tell anyone what Mildred Pierce did!
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Keywords
beach house
black and white
bold
business partner
business woman
complicated
daughter
ex-husband ex-wife relationship
film noir
frame up
husband wife relationship
infidelity
introspective
melodramatic
mother daughter estrangement
mother daughter relationship
murder
nightclub singer
promise
restaurant
shocking
snob
spoiled child
told in flashback
tragic
ungrateful child
zealous