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Mildred Pierce (TV Miniseries)

HBO Classics

Mildred Pierce

2011

Todd Haynes

Kate Winslet, Evan Rachel Wood, Guy Pearce, Melissa Leo ...

7.1

5,909

TV Series. Drama TV Miniseries (2011). 5 Episodes. Divorced single mom Mildred Pierce decides to open a restaurant business, which tears at the already-strained relationship with her her ambitious elder daughter, Veda.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"What can you say in a few words about a five-hour HBO miniseries adapted from James M. Cain's landmark 1941 novel? Let's try 'perfection' (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		David Wiegand SFGATE	"'Mildred Pierce,' (...) shares a title with the 1945 film that won Joan Crawford her only Oscar (...) but what director Todd Haynes has done with the material is something else entirely, and something not to be missed"
		Robert Bianco USA Today	"This luxuriously produced miniseries is so gorgeous, even in its re-creation of the Depression, that it practically shimmers. It's also slow (...) Insomniacs should snap up the DVD release the instant it's available"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Instantly and scarily addictive (...) Winslet is a far more sympathetic Mildred than Joan Crawford"
		Alessandra Stanley The New York Times	"A five-part drama that is loyally, unwaveringly true to James M. Cain’s 1941 novel and somehow not nearly as satisfying as the 1945 film noir (...) [It] works best as a feminist soap opera"
		Mary McNamara Los Angeles Times	"Kate Winslet gives a stunning performance in Todd Haynes' compelling miniseries (...) 'Mildred Pierce' is not just great television, it's a revelation"
		Tim Goodman The Hollywood Reporter	"It could be that Haynes' vision of a sweeping mother-daughter story wants for a complexity, a vast emotional grandeur, that the writing doesn’t give us. Or it could be that 'Mildred Pierce' plays better as hardcore noir"
		Emily Nussbaum New York Magazine	"A visually luscious tale of obsession (...) Whatever 'Mildred Pierce's weaknesses, there’s no denying its sensual dazzle. The script is full of period pleasures"

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