Here the evil stepmother is the wife of a planter, and the princess is his spoiled daughter, Rosamund.
The Firelord gives himself a promotion — to Phoenix King — and names his spoiled daughter as his successor.
Mildred's tortured relationship with her spoiled daughter, Veda, is an even darker variation on the classic younger woman/older woman rivalries that fueled "All About Eve," "Bonjour Tristesse" and even "The Bad Seed".
A brilliant film noir reworking of a novel by James M. Cain, it featured Joan Crawford giving one of her strongest performances, as a mother who sacrifices everything for her spoiled daughter (Ann Blyth).
Jen (Zhang Ziyi), the tremulous and spoiled daughter of the governor of the province, is fascinated by Shu Lien's glamorous life: that a woman can have so many adventures and such freedom is marvelous to her.
Daniel, a young American studying in Gorbachev-era St . Petersburg in what his psychiatrist-father calls his "Russian phase," meets Katya, spoiled daughter of a former middle-level member of the Communist nomenklatura.
