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Dolores Claiborne (1995)

24/03/1995 (US)Crime, Drama, Mystery2h 12m
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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

    1. Kathy Bates

      Kathy Bates

      Dolores Claiborne

    2. Jennifer Jason Leigh

      Jennifer Jason Leigh

      Selena St. George

    3. Judy Parfitt

      Judy Parfitt

      Vera Donovan

    4. Christopher Plummer

      Christopher Plummer

      John Mackey

    5. David Strathairn

      David Strathairn

      Joe St. George

    6. Eric Bogosian

      Eric Bogosian

      Peter

    7. John C. Reilly

      John C. Reilly

      Const. Frank Stamshaw

    8. Ellen Muth

      Ellen Muth

      Young Selena

    9. Bob Gunton

      Bob Gunton

      Mr. Pease

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    A review by MoHA

    10.0
    Written by MoHA on 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, wh...

    StatusReleased

    Original LanguageEnglish

    Budget$13,000,000.00

    Revenue$46,400,000.00

    Keywords

    • depression
    • child abuse
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    • based on novel or book
    • detective
    • suspicion of murder
    • abusive father
    • melancholy
    • dysfunctional family
    • lawsuit
    • alcoholism
    • murder
    • maine
    • domestic violence
    • reporter
    • maid
    • anger
    • alcoholic father
    • macabre
    • angry
    • accident
    • abusive husband
    • anti-depressant
    • bank account
    • antagonistic
    • awestruck