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>
Author Stephen King wrote the character of Dolores with Kathy Bates in mind. Bates had impressed the author after meeting him on the set of
Misery.
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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.
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