Movie: Dolores Claiborne (1995)

This movie, 'loosely' based on the book by Stephen King stars Oscar Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Lee. Bates won an Oscar for her performance in Misery, another flick based on the work of Stephen King.
This movie, thoughunderstandably nowhere close to the book, is a powerful must see.

Dolores Claiborne(Bates)used to be the caretaker of Vera, a rich woman. Kathy's husband died under mysterious circumstances years before, on the day of a dramatic Solar Eclipse.

Then there is her daughter(Lee), a tormented soul who is trying to cope with her feelings, unaware of events past that lay burried in her sub-concience.
Great performanced from Bates, Lee and David Strathairn who plays Dolores' abusive husband make this movie watchable.

Kathy's Dolores Claiborne is a polished, dignified elderly person, unlike her ugly, foul mouthed alter-ego from King's Book.Unlike the mother of three she is in King's book she is the mother of an only child, Selena.

Christopher Plummer also delivers a good performance as a private detective, a character I cannot remember in the book.(He probably had a negligible role.
My favorite line in the movie, also a favorite of President Bush is
'Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.'
President Bush has a different rendition of this one.

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