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Dolores Claiborne
Synopsis
A daughter who has come to imagine the worst about her mother learns the facts are quite different -- and more shocking than she ever imagined -- in this adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling novel. Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates) has spent nearly a quarter of a century looking after a mean-spirited woman named Vera Donovan (Judy Parfitt) on a small island off the coast of Maine; when Vera is found dead after falling down a flight of stairs, Dolores is considered a prime suspect in her murder. Word of the affair reaches New York-based journalist Selena St. George (Jennifer Jason Leigh), Dolores's estranged daughter. Though she's about to leave on an important assignment, Selena instead flies to Maine to find out what's happened with her mother. Selena's father, Joe St. George (David Strathairn), died under mysterious circumstances 15 years before; more than a few people believe Dolores killed Joe, and many feel she did the same with Vera. Though the strong and tough-talking Dolores stands her ground, police detective John Mackey (Christopher Plummer) is convinced that there's more to her story than she's letting on, and in time Selena learns the ugly truth about her mother's connection to both deaths. This was Kathy Bates's second starring role in a film based on Stephen King's work; she earned an Academy Award for her breakthrough role in the movie version of King's Misery.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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Full Credits
  • Director:
    Taylor Hackford,
  • Writer:
    Tony Gilroy, Stephen King,
  • Producer:
    Charles Mulvehill, Taylor Hackford,
  • Cinematographer:
    Gabriel Beristain,
  • Editor:
    Mark Warner,
  • Cast:
    Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Plummer, Kathy Bates, David Strathairn,
  • Assistant Editor:
    Ray Neapolitan, Vaune Kirby Frechette, Steven Ramirez,
  • First Assistant Director:
    Josh McLaglen,
  • Second Second Assistant Director:
    Kristie Sills,
  • Third Assistant Director:
    Lars P. Winther,
  • Supervising Sound Editor:
    David E. Stone,
  • Camera Operator:
    Freddie Cooper,
  • Script Supervisor:
    Shelley Crawford,
  • ADR Mixer:
    Doc Kane,
  • Boom Operator:
    John Fundus,
  • First Assistant Camera:
    Michael Hall, Tony Guerin, Michael Hall,
  • Location Manager:
    Debra Beers, Gary Swim,
  • Production Coordinator:
    Gina Fowler,
  • Production Sound Mixer:
    Glen Gauthier,
  • Property Master:
    Grant Swain,
  • Sound Effects Editor:
    Curt Schulkey, William Jacobs, William Jacobs, Michael J. Benavente, Paul Timothy Carden, Elliott Koretz,
  • Second Assistant Camera:
    Ciaran Copelin,
  • Color Timer:
    Bob Kaiser,
  • Foley Recordist:
    Roberta Alstadter,
  • Still Photographer:
    John Clifford, John Clifford,
  • Production Accountant:
    K. Lenna Katich,
  • Set Decoration:
    Steve Shewchuk,
  • Music Consultant:
    Arlene Fishbach,
  • Gaffer:
    Vojislav Mikulic,
  • Production Manager:
    Joseph Boccia,
  • Stunts:
    Sammy Thurman, Ron Van Hart, Shelley Cook,
  • Hairstylist:
    Aldo Signoretti, Réjean Goderre,
  • Casting Associate:
    Stacey Rosen,
  • Assistant Location Manager:
    Andrew McInnes,
  • Production Design:
    Bruno Rubeo,
  • Costume Design:
    Shay Cunliffe,
  • Casting:
    Nancy Klopper,
  • Negative Cutter:
    Mo Henry,
  • Foley Mixer:
    Marilyn Graf,
  • Screenplay:
    Tony Gilroy,
  • Greensman:
    Stephanie Waldron,
  • Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
    Gary C. Bourgeois, Richard Portman,
  • Dialect Coach:
    Elizabeth Himelstein,
  • Music Editor:
    Curt Sobel,
  • Key Rigging Grip:
    Matthew Pill,
  • ADR Editor:
    Thomas Whiting, Julia Evershade,
  • Steadicam Operator:
    Jeff Mart,
  • Art Department Trainee:
    Darlene Shiels,
  • Foley Artist:
    Hilda Hodges, Vanessa Theme Ament,
  • Assistant Property Master:
    Dean Eilertson,
  • Art Direction:
    Dan Yarhi,
  • Original Music Composer:
    Danny Elfman,
  • Assistant Set Decoration:
    Patricia Larman,
  • Novel:
    Stephen King,
  • Assistant Sound Editor:
    Oscar Mitt, Sonny Pettijohn, Courtenay Marvin,
  • Stunt Coordinator:
    Gary Davis,
  • Makeup Artist:
    Micheline Trépanier,
  • First Assistant Art Direction:
    Angela Murphy,
  • Foley Editor:
    Ed Callahan,

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