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24/03/1995 Crime, Drama, Mystery 2h 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.

  1. Taylor Hackford

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Kathy Bates

    Dolores Claiborne

  2. Jennifer Jason Leigh

    Selena St. George

  3. Judy Parfitt

    Vera Donovan

  4. Christopher Plummer

    John Mackey

  5. David Strathairn

    Joe St. George

  6. Eric Bogosian

    Peter

  7. John C. Reilly

    Const. Frank Stamshaw

  8. Ellen Muth

    Young Selena

  9. Bob Gunton

    Mr. Pease

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Reviews

A review by MoHA
Written by MoHA on 2015-04-18
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.

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$13,000,000.00

Revenue
$46,400,000.00

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