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Dolores Claiborne (1995)

Drama | 131 minutes
3,66 749 votes

Genre: Drama / Mystery

Duration: 131 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Taylor Hackford

Stars: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Christopher Plummer

IMDb score: 7,4 (49.921)

Releasedate: 24 March 1995

Dolores Claiborne plot

"Sometimes, an accident can be an unhappy woman's best friend."

Dolores, a housekeeper, is accused of murdering her employer. This event also brings up her husband's death 20 years ago. Her daughter Selena, a successful journalist, sees her own childhood again and learns the facts surrounding the mystery of her father's 'unfortunate' death...

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Movsin

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I think Kathy Bates's acting is brilliant, Jenifer Jason Leigh is less convincing, in this dark family drama that is half built up with flashbacks. Overall a bit long winded. Many unsavory scenes such as the marital disputes, not without violence, the sad experiences of young Selena with her father, the opening scene...

Compelling, yes, but not a pleasant viewing piece.

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Lovelyboy

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I say, "Shit, she may be ugly now, but you should've seen her when I was drinking!"

More than decent drama based on a Stephen King book. I can remember that the film was eagerly brought in when released in '95, but was very disappointing as there is no scary moment in it. In fact, I thought it was a very boring film at the time, something that is different now.

Drama in many layers, about practically parallel events, the influence and threat of the past and the many questions and doubts that still remain. Extremely solid work is done and even forgotten and repressed things come to the fore. It's not all that exciting, but the film doesn't lose power and it remains uncertain until the end how the fork actually works.

Artistic are the transitions to flashbacks that overflow with color where the reality is gray and gloomy. A number of arty scenes are pleasing to the eye, such as the silhouette of the house against a blood-red sky, beautiful! Bates is more than fine but I personally find Judy Parfitt to be a frustrated and almost fake elderly genius at the end. Straitharn, a role he's not used to, also does a fine job, although the first scene between him and Bates, leading up to the first punch he deals, is rather forced and unreal.

Dolores Claiborne is a more than fine and well acted drama.

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Filmkriebel

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The King of Horror does something different than horror.... or not? Because isn't the whole existence of Dolores Claiborne a horror? The insults of her drinking husband, the persistent murder charges, a daughter who is completely estranged from her mother, a twenty-year life in the service of a wealthy aristocrat... The whole question in the film is whether she is indeed her husband. and killed the old employer by making them look like accidents . Little by little (strong) flashbacks, suspicions, doubts, revelations, lead to a satisfying conclusion.

It is special that Stephen King wrote this book at the time, because it has little to do with all his other works and seems to be a very personal project. Kathy Bates is majestic in her role as a tired woman who can only count on some understanding from her daughter. Really got the shivers. This is an excellent movie.

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