Mildred Pierce

What Veda wants, her mother Mildred Pierce provides. Even if Mildred must end her middle-class marriage, climb atop the male-dominated business world and marry a wealthy man she doesn't love. I'll do anything, Mildred says in explaining her love for her daughter. But does anything include murder? Just when you think you got this nominee for five other Oscars, including Best Picture, figured out, along comes a shocking twist ending!