

Dolores Claiborne
Sometimes, an accident can be an unhappy woman's best friend.
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $13M
- Box office
- $46.4M
- Language
- English
- depression
- child abuse
- island
- based on novel or book
- detective
- suspicion of murder
- abusive father
- melancholy
- dysfunctional family
- lawsuit
- alcoholism
- murder
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR24 Mar 1995
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical188 Sept 1995
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA 15+10 Aug 1995
CanadaCA
- PhysicalDVD15 May 2007
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical23 Nov 1995
BelgiumBE
- Premiere18Film Festival Oostende7 Sept 2019
BrazilBR
- PhysicalDVD21 Aug 2000
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical29 Sept 1995
FinlandFI
- Theatrical29 Sept 1995
FranceFR
- PremiereDeauville Film Festival9 Sept 1995
- Theatrical1611 Oct 1995
GermanyDE
- PremiereOldenburg International Film Festival3 Sept 1995
- Theatrical127 Dec 1995
GreeceGR
- Theatrical9 Feb 1996
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Dolores Claiborne was released on 24 March 1995.
Audience reviews
3- M10/10
MoHA
4/18/2015
Welcome to Maine; where alcoholism, smoking, and all sorts of behavior the aforementioned are trying to cover up creep up on you like bad filling of gravy. At least, in Stephen King’s universe. True to his (excessive) words, a lot gets stirred up, not all of it gets answered, and characters get knee high in lots of details. Nothing wrong about that, except in this movie the details, and the melodrama that comes with…
- T9/10
talisencrw
9/13/2016
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 Ston…
- J8/10
John Chard
2/25/2020
Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto. Dolores Claiborne is directed by Taylor Hackford and adapted to screenplay by Tony Gilroy from the novel of the same name written by Stephen King. It stars Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Strathairn, John C. Riley, Christopher Plummer and Judy Parfitt. Music is scored by Danny Elfman and cinematography by Gabriel Beristain. Plot sees Leigh as Sel…
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