Mildred Pierce

(1945; screens Tuesday at 5:15 p.m.)

Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her masochistic posturing in the title role as a self-sacrificing mother who keeps protecting her scheming, graspy daughter (Ann Blyth) -- even after the kid steals her new husband (Zachary Scott). This is enjoyable trash, but if you don't leave your mind outside the theater, the glitches in the plot alone could drive you nuts.