Okay I read the plot of Cruella (2021) and Holy Hell this is a mess.
Here's some highlights: (Be warned: there will be spoilers)
Cruella's name is Estella
She is born with her signature half white and half black hair ... Kay...
Her mother - I sh*t you not, is pushed over a cliff by Dalmatians and she dies (which is why Cruella I guess, wants to skin 99 puppies?)
Estella moves to London - and befriends Jasper and Horace
She eventually gets on the Baroness' radar and works as an intern and works her way up the ranks
Until the baroness uses a motherf*cking dog whistle to call some Dalmations to her side and Cruella comes to the conclusion that the baroness killed her mother (by having the dogs run her off a cliff mufasa style) - and she's right!
Cruella pulls some hijinks yada yada yada
She has her friend Anita Darling help get her publicity (because Anita is a journalist)
Cruella does something to mess with the baroness that results in her lawyer Roger (yes, that Roger) getting fired and he returns to being a pianist
Oh, and there's a side plot involving the baroness wearing Cruella's mother's necklace and she wants it back - but a Dalmatian eats it
Eventually the dog (who Cruella dognaps) coughs it up or something (cause it's pg13 she ain't gonna be digging around in the dogs intestinal tract)
And then some dude who's like, the baroness's chauffeur or something tells Cruella the necklace is a key to a special box that the baroness keeps under high security
(Dont ask me how a random necklace is a key to a box)
Cruella steals and opens the box - and Dun Dun Dun! It contains Estella's (Cruella) birth records! Shes actually the baroness's daughter! Gasp!
But she didnt want her so she like faked her kids death or something??
Anyway - Cruella shows up at the baroness's party and declares she knows shes her birth mother (her other mother was a maid who raised her in secret and I guess the baroness decided to kill her for some reason?)
So the baroness uses the dog whistle again and tries to murder her daughter by chasing her off a cliff using her Dalmations (the baroness really only has one shtick huh?)
Cruella falls off a cliff - but - she has a parachute and I guess lands safely because we don't know whats at the bottom of the cliff? (Is it jagged rocks on a shoreline, is it an elephant graveyard, or a soft meadow of flowers? Who's to say.... its a tumoltuous sea storm with crashing waves)
Did I forget to mention the parachute is apparently made from Cruella's skirt?
The police arrest the baroness and somehow Cruella gets the rights to owning the baroness's mansion - she nicknames it 'Hell Hall'
But what about the Dalmations you say??
Cruella still likes them and even helps one of the dogs give birth to...you guessed it (pongo and perdita) - and gifts them to Roger and Anita
Oh and now both Anita and Roger respect and admire Cruella and her finesse - so Roger writes his song "Cruella De Ville" in honor of how cool he thinks she is.
I am NOT making this up. I couldn't if I tried.