Dolores Claiborne poster
Screenplay Tony Gilroy
Director Taylor Hackford

Dolores Claiborne

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

Release Date: 1995-03-24

Duration: 132 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Christopher Plummer
    John Mackey
  • Kathy Bates
    Dolores Claiborne
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh
    Selena St. George
  • David Strathairn
    Joe St. George
  • Bob Gunton
    Mr. Pease
  • John C. Reilly
    Const. Frank Stamshaw
  • Wayne Robson
    Sammy Marchant
  • Judy Parfitt
    Vera Donovan
  • Ellen Muth
    Young Selena
  • Eric Bogosian
    Peter