Mildred Pierce
Having it all would cost her everything.
On HBO
A concentrated, visually sumptuous period drama about maternal sacrifice and social ambition during the Depression, where a woman's self-abnegation becomes both her strength and her undoing.
Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a man, all the while trying to earn her spoiled, narcissistic daughter's love and respect.
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