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Dolores Claiborne is a american film of genre Drama directed by Taylor Hackford released in USA on 24 march 1995 with Kathy Bates
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 24 march 1995
Length 2h12
Directed by Taylor Hackford
OriginUSA
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement, Films about domestic violence, Films about school violence, Harcèlement au travail
Rating73%
Dolores Claiborne is a 1995 American psychological thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and David Strathairn. It is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. The plot focuses on the strained relationship between a mother and her daughter, largely told through flashbacks, after her daughter arrives to her remote hometown on a Maine island where her mother has been accused of murdering the elderly woman whom she cared for.
The screenplay for Dolores Claiborne was adapted by Tony Gilroy, and the film was shot off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1994. Kathy Bates stated in a retrospective interview that her performance as the titular Dolores was her favorite performance she'd ever given. In 2013, Time magazine named the film among the top ten greatest Stephen King film adaptations.
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Dolores Claiborne (Bates) works as a domestic servant on a Maine island. The film opens with Dolores having a struggle with her elderly, paralyzed employer Vera Donovan (Judy Parfitt) in her mansion, after which Vera falls down the staircase. Dolores ransacks the kitchen and is then caught by a mailman as she stands over Vera with a rolling pin, apparently intending to kill her. Vera dies and the police begin a murder investigation.Actors
Kathy Bates
(Dolores Claiborne)
Jennifer Jason Leigh
(Selena St. George)
David Strathairn
(Joe St. George)
John C. Reilly
(Const. Frank Stamshaw)
Judy Parfitt
(Vera Donovan)
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