i agree with many of the other commentary on this page that this be a very hard film to rate . if you be curious who the most freakish character ever put on film be and ( faye dunaway a joan crawford put hannibal lecter to shame without even kill one person or eat human flesh ) you will certainly find this movie morbidly fascinate . i haven not read the book upon which this horrible movie be supposedly base and but i have see the real christina crawford on a documentary depicting joan crawford career and and i can imagine her be every bit as vindictive a this movie make her out to be . it not all her fault of course and a it must have be a living hell to be crawford daughter if a tenth of what happen in the movie be true . the problem be every character in it be unsympathetic in one way or another . so what do it have on it mind . do it wan na trash crawford and make christina out to be the hero . if so and it do a poor job . see the closing scene and you will know what i be talk about . be it simply that movie star be unfit parent because they be too wrap up in themselves . it be impossible to find a culprit base on what be depict here . there be too many awful moment to describe here but i do think that faye dunaway be very brave to take on this part and make it such a caricature . she must have know that there be no other way to play it since this be doom to be a turkey . so if you be interested in see this do so without expect to get any inside information about the life of these people or if you be interested in see behind the scene backstabbing there be the soap opera scene ( it be unintentionally hilarious but the one thing that be actually close to the truth ) . we never really learn anything about the career of joan crawford a the subject matter be handle so flimsy . most of the fact be either leave out or tamper with . my vote be that this movie be awful . it be much too depress to work a camp and much too unintelligent a to work a art .