Annette Bening in The Grifters (1990)

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A smart and suspenseful tale of competing Mom and son con artists, The Grifters (1990) is a film with style, violence, heat and sex. Clearly momma Anjelica Huston loves her son, John Cusack, but the black widow spider must feel some affection for her offspring as well, as she eats them alive. Throw into this continual tug and pull of love and loathing the amorous advances of super-ambitious budding moll Annette Bening, add a triple-cross betrayal and a presumed murder, and the mother-son relationship becomes uncommonly strained. Where it will snap nobody knows.