Dolores Claiborne is a 1995 film based on the eponymous novel by Stephen King, starring Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It was directed by Taylor Hackford.
As the story begins, Dolores Claiborne (Bates), a middle-aged domestic servant in a coastal town in Maine, is heard having an argument with her employer Vera Donovan (Judy Parfitt), after which Vera falls down the stairs. Dolores ransacks the kitchen and is then caught by a mailman as sh...
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Dolores Claiborne is a 1995 film based on the eponymous novel by Stephen King, starring Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It was directed by Taylor Hackford.
As the story begins, Dolores Claiborne (Bates), a middle-aged domestic servant in a coastal town in Maine, is heard having an argument with her employer Vera Donovan (Judy Parfitt), after which Vera falls down the stairs. Dolores ransacks the kitchen and is then caught by a mailman as she stands over Vera with a rolling pin, intending to kill Vera. Vera dies and Dolores is charged with her murder.
Dolores' daughter, Selena St. George (Leigh), a journalist, arrives in town to support her mother. Dolores insists that she did not kill her wealthy employer, but since she is already believed by the public to have murdered her husband, Joe St. George (David Straithairn) almost 20 years earlier, few believe her. One of these people, Detective John Mackey (Christopher Plummer), the chief detective in her husband's murder case, is...
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