Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 132 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
- depression
- child abuse
- island
- based on novel or book
- detective
- suspicion of murder
- abusive father
- melancholy
- dysfunctional family
- lawsuit
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Kathy Bates
Dolores Claiborne
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Selena St. George
Judy Parfitt
Vera Donovan
Christopher Plummer
John Mackey
- David Strathairn — Joe St. George
- Eric Bogosian — Peter
- John C. Reilly — Const. Frank Stamshaw
- Ellen Muth — Young Selena
- Bob Gunton — Mr. Pease
- Roy Cooper — Magistrate
- Wayne Robson — Sammy Marchant
- Ruth Marshall — Secretary
- Weldon Allen — Bartender
- Tom Gallant — Searcher
- Kelly Burnett — Jack Donovan
- Directed
- Taylor Hackford
- Written
- Tony Gilroy
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 894 ratings
- Studio
- Castle Rock Entertainment
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
