Dolores Claiborne
Sometimes, an accident can be an unhappy woman's best friend.
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Release Date
3/24/1995Runtime
132 minsOverview
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.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$13,000,000Revenue
$46,400,000Homepage
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A dark excavation of trauma and survival that asks whether killing can be justified, told across two timelines that gradually expose the truth beneath a woman's suspected crimes. Kathy Bates commands the screen with a performance of bruised dignity, making you complicit in understanding rather than judging.
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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
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