This infamous bio-pic of Joan Crawford depicts the Hollywood actress as an evil doppelganger of Mildred Pierce. At the center of the movie is a no-holds-barred performance by Faye Dunaway as the monstrous mother who expects nothing less than perfection from her adopted children. Director Frank Perry steers the film erratically from melodrama to pastiche in a series of lurid set-pieces. The movie was critically savaged upon release and subsequently disowned by Dunaway. Predictably, Mommie Dearest is now revered as a high camp classic and is here presented with a narration by the Pope of Trash, John Waters.