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Instead of heading to Arizona for her next big story in what has been her illustrious career in her relatively young life, New York based investigative journalist Selena St. George heads to her hometown on a small island just off the coast of Jonesport, Maine upon receiving a fax from an anonymous sender that her mother, Dolores Claiborne, is the only suspect in what looks to be the murder of her wealthy employer of twenty-three years, Vera Donovan. Dolores, who reassumed her maiden name following the death of Selenas father, Joe St. George, started working as one of Veras domestics upon her moving permanently into what used to be the Donovans summer house after Jack Donovans passing, Dolores ultimately moving into the Donovan house full time as her caregiver when Vera required round the clock care. Dolores employment, which was solely to save money for Selenas education, was despite miserly and overly particular Vera only paying a pittance. Selena has been estranged from Dolores for fifteen years, when Selena went away to college at Vassar on a full scholarship, on Selenas belief not only that her mother killed her father when she was thirteen - the death ultimately ruled accidental - but the trauma she endured at the hands of townsfolk who believed the same in their often anonymous taunts. Selena still suffers emotionally from the trauma, she resorting to various means of self-medication. Detective John Mackey, who led the investigation, believed the same, this case the only blemish in his otherwise perfect career. He, leading the investigation into Veras death, has seemingly had it in for Dolores for eighteen years, and already has it in his mind that if she could kill Joe, she could just as easily have killed Vera, with a strong underlying motive beyond the seemingly open dislike the two had for each other in their mutual name calling. As Dolores and Selena are forced to move back into what has largely been the closed-up St. George house for however long Selena will be staying on the island, old memories come back to haunt both of them, with the truth behind what happened eighteen years ago and thus what happened with Vera buried deep within those memories in the house.
Dolores Claiborne works as a maid for a wealthy woman in remote Maine. When she is indicted for the elderly womans 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 Selenas troubled childhood, many difficult truths are revealed about their familys 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....
Kathy Bates
Dolores Claiborne
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Selena St. George
Christopher Plummer
Detective John Mackey
Judy Parfitt
Vera Donovan
David Strathairn
Joe St. George
Eric Bogosian
Peter
John C. Reilly
Constable Frank Stamshaw
Ellen Muth
Young Selena
Bob Gunton
Mr. Pease
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Wayne Robson
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Ruth Marshall
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Weldon Allen
Bartender
Tom Gallant
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Kelly Burnett
Jack Donovan
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