Resologist

The only problem that I find with this film is its focus upon the one child being abused, (barely touching upon the adopted brother's also being abused). Far too many celebrities came to the defence of Joan Crawford, praising her as a mother and dismissing her adopted daughter's accounts, and suffered nothing for their defending this abusive relationship. Exaggerated? I also recall being punished as a child for not eating a meal served at a Chinese restaurant, and my adoptive mother had the food taken-out and kept it three days in our home fridge. I was not allowed to eat anything else, until that rotting food was eaten, (having held out that long until I was sick from hunger). It sickened me, all the more; and, I couldn't stomach Chinese food for decades after that experience. Not one person spoke in my defence, (as a child), as I was being "punished" for "wasting food"; thus, I have not the slightest doubt of the daughter's story of the rare-beef meal kept far too long until it was garbage.Hollywood may not have wanted to risk trouble with other actors and Crawford's other lovers; but, it weakened the film's point that, early on, it was clear to most everyone, Joan Crawford was unfit as an adoptive mother but, given her celebrity status and wealth, was allowed to adopt and abuse two children, without any serious consequences from the law or to her acting career.