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The human relationship between Christina Crawford and her adoptive mother Joan Crawford is presented from Christina'southward view. Unable to conduct children, Joan, in 1940, was denied children through regular adoption agencies due to her twice divorced status and being a single working person. Her lover at the time, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lawyer Greg Savitt, was able to go through a brokerage to adopt a baby girl, who would exist Christina, the first of Joan's four adoptive children. Joan believes that her ain difficult upbringing has fabricated her a stronger person, and decides that, while providing the comforts that a successful Hollywood actress tin beget, she volition non coddle Christina or her other children, she treating Christina more as a competitor than a daughter. Joan's handling of Christina is ofttimes passive-aggressive, fueled both past the highs and lows of her career, the narcissism that goes along with being an actress, and booze abuse specially during the low times. However, Joan sees much of her actions toward Christina as Christina purposefully provoking her. Despite the physical and emotional abuse Joan hurls at Christina over the course of their relationship, Christina, who frequently wonders why Joan adopted her seeing as to the abuse, seemingly still wants her mother's dearest right until the very bitter end. —Huggo

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Why would Faye deny this pic and so? She'due south neat.

Alright, this might not be besides obscure of a moving-picture show but when information technology came out it wasn't well received and pretty much ignored causing it to have a huge cult following. The acting by Dunaway as Joan Crawford is so exaggerated that information technology seems unbelievable that it's a biographical tale. More than than Crawford's story as an actress, this movie deals with the painful, abusive, and traumatic upbringing of her daughter Christina (she wrote the book that prompted the making of this movie). Some say Christina made a lot of it up to destroy her mother's reputation but others say information technology might be quite accurate. Either style, Dunaway's performance as the Screen Queen is uncanny. She embodies every quality of Crawford and watching the movie you forget that it's non really Joan merely Faye in the role. Sure, this movie won Razzie Awards and the producers even tried to capitalize with its failure past billing it "The worst mother of them all." Dunaway even goes as far as telling interviewers beforehand that she will not talk almost this movie. 1 can understand her seeing that she was campaigning for an Oscar nod and instead won the Razzie for worst actress but none of that matters because this flick is now seen as a great tragedy and yous'll definitely get lost in the story wondering if everything is truthful. Oh, and the scenes with Faye Dunaway and Mara Hobel, who plays young Christina Crawford, are amazing. Information technology'south no wonder she won the Young Artist Honor. Seriously, watch information technology. The "No more wire hangers" scene alone is enough to watch this smashing film.