Dolores Claiborne

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