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Dolores Claiborne
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.
1995 · Directed by Taylor Hackford · 132 min · Crime · Drama · Mystery · 12 frames
Tagline
Sometimes, an accident can be an unhappy woman's best friend.
Crew
- Screenplay: Tony Gilroy
- Cinematography: Gabriel Beristain
- Edited by: Mark Warner
- Music: Danny Elfman
- Production design: Bruno Rubeo
- Produced by: Taylor Hackford, Charles Mulvehill
Cast
- Kathy Bates as Dolores Claiborne
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Selena St. George
- Judy Parfitt as Vera Donovan
- Christopher Plummer as John Mackey
- David Strathairn as Joe St. George
- Eric Bogosian as Peter
- John C. Reilly as Const. Frank Stamshaw
- Ellen Muth as Young Selena
- Bob Gunton as Mr. Pease
- Roy Cooper as Magistrate
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Castle Rock Entertainment
- Budget: $13,000,000
- Box office: $46,400,000
- Themes: depression, child abuse, island, based on novel or book, detective, suspicion of murder, abusive father, melancholy, dysfunctional family, lawsuit
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