Mommy Not-So-Dearest: 9 of the Worst Mothers in Movies

Legendary Hollywood actress Joan Crawford is depicted as a crazy, hotheaded, and unhinged obsessive-complusive mother in Mommie Dearest, and the thing that makes it even more chilling is the fact that it's based on a true story. Joan's real-life adopted daughter, Christina, penned a memoir of the same name that inspired the movie, though it's been widely reported that the wire hangers, hair chopping, and floor scrubbing scenes are fictional. Either way, it's just terrifying — but as Joan [Faye Dunaway] cryptically says in the film, "Nobody said life was fair, Tina."