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...Analogous to “women’s pictures” such as Stella Dallas (1937) and Mildred Pierce (1945), as well as 1990s maternal melodramas such as Mermaids and Tumbleweeds, Holmes’s movie empathetically depicts the plight...
...Joan Crawford made everyone cry as the pie-baking mom in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce....
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