While Titanic isn’t James Cameron’s first hugely successful film, it is surely one of the most notable. Back when the 1997 film was still in productions – the size of the final budget was almost unheard of and periodically, there would be articles bashing Cameron on how much money he was spending on a movie. Then – Titanic was released and ticket sales for the film hit record numbers – literally breaking records and becoming the highest grossing film of all time. Only to be done again 13 years later by the same man.

Overall, as most people know – Titanic is a fantastic film, perfect for renting, owning, or by any other means. Oscar Winning Film.

Budget: $200 million
Director: James Cameron
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
Kate Winslet
Billy Zane
Kathy Bates
Frances Fisher
Gloria Stuart
Bill Paxton
Bernard Hill

This story resembles Stephen King’s other work, The Shawshank Redemption, on two points: first, the movie is about a person suffering from a lingering bad situation i.e. she is incarcerated; and second, despite that odd, the person finds a way to squirm herself out of the situation. Well, not literally, because Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates’s character) in this movie was not exonerated of her crime. We tend to believe that she really killed the maid in the movie. But the positivity that came from that situation was it cemented Dolores Claiborne’s relationship with her daughter, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, another beautiful actress who can do strong straight drama. After all, this is one of Kathy’s finest performances in her sterling career.

Trivia:

Stephen King earned US$ 1.5 million when CASTLE ROCK bought the rights to this novel.

Stephen King