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Dolores Claiborne (1995)
7.2
Ratings: 7.2/10 from 17,483 users
Metascore:
62/100
Reviews: 132 user | 50 critic | 19 from Metacritic.com A big-city reporter travels to the small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman that she works for as a maid. Director:Taylor Hackford |
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Judy Parfitt | ... | |
| Christopher Plummer | ... | ||
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| John C. Reilly | ... | ||
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Roy Cooper | ... | |
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Wayne Robson | ... | |
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Weldon Allen | ... |
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Tom Gallant | ... | |
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Kelly Burnett | ... | |
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Storyline
Dolores Claiborne works as a maid for a wealthy woman in remote Maine. When she is indicted for the elderly woman's murder, Dolores' daughter Selena returns from New York, where she has become a big-shot reporter. In the course of working out the details of what has happened, as well as some shady questions from the past and Selina's troubled childhood, many difficult truths are revealed about their family's domestic strife. This is cleverly portrayed with present reality shot in cool blue tones blending seamlessly into flashbacks shot in vivid color. As small town justice relentlessly grinds forward, surprises lie in store for the viewers.... Written by Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
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They were separated by a death...and reunited by a murder. See more »Parents Guide:
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Opening Weekend:
$5,721,920 (USA) (26 March 1995)Gross:
$24,361,867 (USA)Company Credits
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Dolores Claiborne: You're sorry, are you? Bet the last time you were sorry was when you needed to use the pay toilet and the string on your pet dime broke.
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The ferry at the end of the movie is called the "Joshua Slocum", named for the first person to circumnavigate the globe alone. See more »Goofs
Continuity: Just as Dolores gets home from getting the afternoon off from Vera's, Joe steps up onto the porch. His left pant leg is ripped showing his thigh, but when he's chasing her through the yard his right pant leg is ripped. See more »Quotes
Det. John Mackey: I'm sorry, but I think it's for the best if you got yourself some legal representation.Dolores Claiborne: You're sorry, are you? Bet the last time you were sorry was when you needed to use the pay toilet and the string on your pet dime broke.
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