Dolores Claiborne . Tucson Weekly . 03-30-95

Dolores Claiborne

DIRECTED BY: Taylor Hackford

REVIEWED: 03-30-95

In what you might call a female version of Stephen King's The Shawshank Redemption, Kathy Bates stars as a long-enduring widow who is suspected of having killed her husband many years ago. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays her edgy daughter who returns home when Bates is implicated in another death. The mystery that follows is less a mystery than the unearthing of a pain-filled domestic past. Directed in a pungent Gothic style by Taylor Hackford, the movie rises high above the exploitative nature of its material thanks to stunning imagery, emotionally stark sequences and Bates' solid performance.

--Zachary Woodruff

Other Films by Taylor Hackford
The Devil's Advocate

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Primal Fear
Kiss of Death
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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