I dont' think you understand Veda very well. She's not like you. You'll never make a...
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Mildred Pierce:
Look, Monte. I've worked long and hard trying to give Veda the things I never had. I've done without a lot of things, including happiness sometimes because I wanted her to have everything. Now I'm losing her. She's drifting away from me. She hardly speaks to me anymore except to ask for money or poke fun at me in French at me because I work for a living. Monte Beragon:
All kids are thoughtless at her age. Mildred Pierce:
Perhaps but I still don't like it. I blame it on the way she's been living. I blame it on you. Monte Beragon:
I dont' think you understand Veda very well. She's not like you. You'll never make a waitress out of her
Look, Monte. I've worked long and hard trying to give Veda the things I never had. I've done without a lot of things, including happiness sometimes because I wanted her to have everything. Now I'm losing her. She's drifting away from me. She hardly speaks to me anymore except to ask for money or poke fun at me in French at me because I work for a living. Monte Beragon:
All kids are thoughtless at her age. Mildred Pierce:
Perhaps but I still don't like it. I blame it on the way she's been living. I blame it on you. Monte Beragon:
I dont' think you understand Veda very well. She's not like you. You'll never make a waitress out of her
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Grow up I've never denied you anything
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Anything money could buy I've given you But that wasn't enough was it
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Things are going to be different
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I'll say they are Why do you think I went to all this trouble
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Why do you think I want money so badly All right why
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Are you sure you want to know Yes
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Then I'll tell you With this money I can get away from you
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Veda
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From you and your chickens pies and kitchens Everything that smells of grease
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I can get away from this shack and its cheap furniture And this town
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Its women that wear uniforms Its men that wear overalls
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I'm seeing you for the first time in my life You're cheap and horrible
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You think just because you made money you can turn yourself into a lady
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But you can't You'll never be anything but a common frump
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Movie Summary
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Actors
Mildred Pierce
Monte Beragon
