Sometimes, an accident can be an unhappy woman's best friend.
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.
CrimeDramaMysterydepressionchild abuseislandbased on novel or bookdetectivesuspicion of murderabusive fathermelancholydysfunctional familylawsuitalcoholismmurder
- Harm to children
- Addiction
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Character
Earnest, grave, contemplative and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
Who loves it, who doesn't
24 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Prestige Hunters.
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Cast
- Kathy BatesDolores Claiborne
- Jennifer Jason LeighSelena St. George
- Judy ParfittVera Donovan
- Christopher PlummerJohn Mackey
- David StrathairnJoe St. George
- Eric BogosianPeter
- John C. ReillyConst. Frank Stamshaw
- Ellen MuthYoung Selena
- Bob GuntonMr. Pease
- Roy CooperMagistrate
Crew
- Taylor HackfordDirector
- Tony GilroyScreenplay
- Stephen KingNovel
- Gabriel BeristainDirector of Photography
- Danny ElfmanOriginal Music Composer
- Mark WarnerEditor
- Taylor HackfordProducer
- Charles MulvehillProducer
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