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Dolores Claiborne

Cast

Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Plummer View All


Crew

Taylor Hackford (Director), Tony Gilroy (Screenplay) View All

Release: Mar. 24th, 1995
Runtime: 2 hours, 12 minutes
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.
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Takoma11
But while the film has a lot of overt themes and content related to Dolores being a woman, for me the real heart of the film is the tragedy of what we'll do for those we love, and the fact that we cannot control the way that they love us back.
Thief
The inquiry by obsessive Detective John Mackey (Christopher Plummer) brings Dolores' estranged daughter, Selena (Jennifer Jason Leigh) reluctantly back into the island, which in turn stirs up memories about the death of Dolores' husband and Selena's father 18 years ago.
Gideon58
Five years after winning an Oscar for playing a Stephen King character in the film version of Misery, Kathy Bates takes on another more complex Stephen King character in 1995's Dolores Claiborne, an overheated and long-winded psychological mystery of abuse and vengeance that despite manic and undisc....


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