Dolores Claiborne

1995 132 min ★ 7.3 Crime, Drama, Mystery

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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Cast

Kathy Bates

Dolores Claiborne

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Selena St. George

Judy Parfitt

Vera Donovan

Christopher Plummer

John Mackey

David Strathairn

Joe St. George

Eric Bogosian

Peter

John C. Reilly

Const. Frank Stamshaw

Ellen Muth

Young Selena

Bob Gunton

Mr. Pease

Roy Cooper

Magistrate

Details

Director

Taylor Hackford

Screenplay

Tony Gilroy

Tagline

"Sometimes, an accident can be an unhappy woman's best friend."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$13,000,000

Revenue

$46,400,000

Production

Castle Rock Entertainment

Reviews

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MoHA

April 18, 2015

★ 10/10

Welcome to Maine; where alcoholism, smoking, and all sorts of behavior the aforementioned are trying to cover up creep up on you like bad filling of gravy. At least, in Stephen King’s universe. True to his (excessive) words, a lot gets stirred up, not all of it gets answered, and characters get knee high in lots of details. Nothing wrong about that, except in this movie the details, and the melod...

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talisencrw

September 13, 2016

★ 9/10

This one tends to get ignored when people consider the 'classic' Stephen King film adaptations (the first 20 years), but it's very subtle, nuanced, and is basically one of King's finest and more mature works. If it was even possible for Kathy Bates to out-do her Oscar-winning work in 'Misery', she still did so, and nailed it. I'm a huge fan of John C. Reilly, Eric Bogosian (why 'Talk Radio is my f...

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John Chard

February 25, 2020

★ 8/10

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto. Dolores Claiborne is directed by Taylor Hackford and adapted to screenplay by Tony Gilroy from the novel of the same name written by Stephen King. It stars Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Strathairn, John C. Riley, Christopher Plummer and Judy Parfitt. Music is scored by Danny Elfman and cinematography by Gabriel Beristain. Pl...