Dolores Claiborne( 1995)

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

Overview

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.

Top Billed 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
Wayne Robson
Sammy Marchant
Ruth Marshall
Secretary
Weldon Allen
Bartender
Tom Gallant
Searcher
Kelly Burnett
Jack Donovan
Matt Appleby
Kid on Street
Thomas Skinner
Kid on Street
Vernon Steel
Ferry Vendor
Taffara Jessica Stella Murray
Young Selena (Age 5)
Susan Lane
Crying Girl
Frank Adamson
Detective Supervisor
Edward Rubin
Detective Supervisor
Sandy MacDonald
Sheriff
Dean Eilertson
Moving Man

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A review by MoHA

Written by MoHA on Sat Apr 18 2015

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 melodrama that comes with them, tend to bog down what should be bonding of two women over the men that hurt them. What a depressingly masculine mess. I love a good pulpy environment (hello film noir, whi...