GamerTab That was an excellent one.

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

JerzeeGerl I thought this was a decent miniseries. I thought Kate Winslet was great in her role, and most likely would have taken home the Emmy if this had been better written. My biggest complaint about the story - and perhaps this is true in the original novel, I don't know - is that it's never explained as to what happened in Veda's upbringing to make her such a manipulative spoiled bitch. She grows up in the 30s, when most people were lucky if they had regular meals let alone a place to live, yet she's vicious and hateful because her mother works in a restaurant. It's not because of her sister's death because she was like that before her sister's death. Also, I don't understand why everyone falls all over Evan Rachel Wood's performance in this. Really? I thought she was mediocre at best. She chews up the scenery in this miniseries - sooooooooo overacted. The scene where Kate Winslet's character finds her daughter with her husband naked? Evan Rachel Wood's movement and performance reminded me of a soap opera. Truthfully, my opinion is that this miniseries would have been much better with a different - and better - actress playing Veda.

spaceman88 First of all, I want to make it clear that I have not read the book this is based on, or have seen the previous film-adaptation. I watched it for two reasons: HBO and Winslet.In "Mildred Piearce", we look mostly through the eyes of a struggling American woman, between the early and late 1930's. Without spoiling much, her new big chapter in life begins with a marital disaster. Mildred is put in a desperate position where she has to overcome her own boundaries to be able to maintain her two children.Although it's pretty much a kitchen-sink drama with feminist undertones, it's done well. The production values and talent behind this five part miniseries are top-notch. Add an excellent performance by Kate Winslet and overall good acting by the rest of the cast, and you are fully transported back in time. Besides Kate, who has center-stage, I was very impressed by the unknown-to-me Morgan Turner as the younger version of the daughter Veda. Evan Rachel Wood plays her in the latter parts, and it's such a fitting casting choice that you might think they're the same person.I was a bit underwhelmed by Guy Pearce's role, expecting more screen- time from him. But his character is very important to the story and he certainly incarnates a spoiled eccentric playboy perfectly."Mildred Pierce" reminded me a lot of "Revolutionary Road", with it's similar narrative tone.

preppy-3 This takes place in California from 1931 to 1940. Mildred Pierce (Kate Winslet) throws out her cheating husband and is left on her own to bring up her two daughters--Ray (Quinn McColgan) and Veda (Morgan Turner and later Evan Rachel Wood). She struggles to make a living and bringing up the two girls. She succeeds but she has this inexplicable love for Veda that eventually leads to tragedy.This was praised to the high heavens when it premiered on HBO. It was nominated for multiple Emmy awards and won one for Winslet. She is incredible, the rest of the cast is OK, it looks great and is well-directed but it's way too long. This did not need to run over five hours! This easily could have been done in two or three hours. As a result this is slow-moving and quite frankly boring. My finger was on the fast forward more than once. Everything is so drawn out it gets annoying. Worst of all Mildreds obsession with Veda is never clearly explained. WHY does she go to such ridiculous lengths to make sure Veda is happy and satisfied? It never makes any sense. It's suggested that she has lesbian tendencies for her but that comes out of nowhere and is never explored. Basically this is an over long, drawn out and boring mini-series. Winslet is great but not good enough to make up for this length.

victoriasimon86 Mildred Pierce HBO 2011: This does have some spoilers. Kate Winslet delivers an honest performance full of anxiety, passion, heartbreak and guts. She plays a woman ahead of her time and without apology - a character full of contradictions who gets what she wants. While the miniseries is long, it shows the delicate ups and downs of a single mother effected by the Great Depression. She is forced to get a job as a waitress, fearing her daughter's disapproval. Her younger daughter dies early in the film. I cannot say that Mildred was as heartbroken by that as she is endlessly throughout the film for being a constant disappointment to her daughter Veda. Veda, played like a perfect tennis opponent by Evan Rachel Wood is a performance not to be missed. Mildred ends up owning a corporation, making the dough, thriving after a divorce and losing it all quickly just to please an ungrateful and blatantly spiteful daughter. Guy Pierce spices things up as Mildred's lover and plays his famous coward role (Count of Monte Cristo, the Kings Speech) like a charm. This one is a surprise though and you have to watch to get to that gaping reaction towards the end of the film. (like you had all throughout Memento) Like all HBO movies and shows, your cable bill every month is worth the superb casting. Also true to HBO, this miniseries is a great snap shot of how it was for how it is now and something we can learn from as we get through the last four years of tough economic times. Though Mildred is considered to be a heroine, what I praise most is the fact that I did not agree with her most of the time, rather I was curious to ride the stock market rises and slumps of her journey.