It’s one milestone to the next until she is left alone in an empty nest.

The film should really be calledMotherhood, because Olivia is the most interesting person in it.

For Beth, appearances are everything, and it tears her family apart.

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Despite a series of familial and romantic crises, Claudine keeps it together.

Roger Ebert called Tyson’s performance a wonder": We know her strength and intelligence.

She will say what they want to hear to get what she wants to get.

Faye Dunaway in the film Mommie Dearest, Sally Field in Forrest Gump and Diahann Carroll in Claudine

You’d like that wouldn’t you?

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Lorelei Linklater, Patricia Arquette and Ellar Coltrane lying on a bed reading a book in the film Boyhood

Cicely Tyson stars in the film Sounder

John Cusack and Anjelica Huston star in the film The Grifters