Crime
Drama
Mystery
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.
Directors
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
Weldon Allen
Bartender
Tom Gallant
Searcher
Kelly Burnett
Jack Donovan
Matt Appleby
Kid on Street
Thomas Skinner
Kid on Street
Vernon Steel
Ferry Vendor
Directors
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This one tends to get ignored when people consider the 'classic' Stephen King film adaptations (the first 20 years), but it's very subtle, nuanced, and is basically one of King's finest and more mature works. If it was even possible for Kathy Bates to out-do her Oscar-winning work in 'Misery', she still did so, and nailed it. I'm a huge fan of John C. Reilly, Eric Bogosian (why 'Talk Radio is my favourite Oliver Stone movie and 'Under Siege 2' my favourite Steven Seagal film), David Strathairn, Christopher Plummer and especially, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and the Tony Gilroy script serves them beautifully.
Unfairly, I tend to joke about director Taylor HACKford, but it just may be that he's a more contemporary model of such versatile directors from the past as Norman Jewison and Robert Wise. That's fairly esteemed company--and here, he abides himself quite nicely in some of his best work.
talisencrw13 Sep, 2016
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