Dolores Claiborne (film)

Dolores Claiborne is a 1995 American psychological thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and David Strathairn. It is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. The plot focuses on the strained relationship between a mother and her daughter, largely told through flashbacks, after her daughter arrives to her remote hometown on a Maine island where her mother has been accused of murdering the elderly woman whom she cared for.

Dolores Claiborne Bates works as a domestic servant on a Maine island. The film opens with Dolores having a struggle with her elderly, paralyzed employer Vera Donovan Judy Parfitt in her mansion, after which Vera falls down the staircase. Dolores ransacks the kitchen and is then caught by a mailman as she stands over Vera with a rolling pin, apparently intending to kill her. Vera dies and the police begin a murder investigation.Dolores daughter, Selena St. George Leigh, a successful New York journalist battling depression and alcoholism, arrives in town to support her mother, despite her own doubts about Dolores innocence. Dolores insists that she did not kill her Vera, but finds little sympathy as the entire town believes she murdered her husband, Joe St. George David Strathairn almostyears earlier. Some of the towns inhabitants harass her by vandalizing her home, taunting her in the street, and driving by her house screaming at her. Detective John Mackey Christopher Plummer, who was the chief detective in her husbands murder case, is determined to put Dolores away for life. ........

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