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Dolores Claiborne

7.3/10

Rating

132 min

Runtime

1995

Release Year

Taylor Hackford

Director

Cast

Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn

Quick Synopsis

Dolores Claiborne was suspected of murdering her abusive husband two decades earlier, but the court did not find enough evidence to convict her, so she was released. Now, she faces new accusations of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, with a witness claiming to have seen her at the crime scene. As the situation worsens for Dolores, her daughter Selena, who works as a successful magazine writer in Manhattan, comes back home to report on the case.

Detailed Synopsis of Dolores Claiborne

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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