Dolores Claiborne

1995·132'

Taylor Hackford

DramaMysteryCrime

★ 7.3

Letterboxd TMDB #11929

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.

Cast

Kathy Bates Dolores Claiborne

Jennifer Jason Leigh Selena St. George

Judy Parfitt Vera Donovan

Christopher Plummer John Mackey

David Strathairn Joe St. George

Eric Bogosian Peter

John C. Reilly Const. Frank Stamshaw

Ellen Muth Young Selena

Bob Gunton Mr. Pease

Roy Cooper Magistrate

Wayne Robson Sammy Marchant

Ruth Marshall Secretary