Did you know that the entire main cast of Dolores Claiborne (1995) is still alive?

OP is a cunt.

I've said it one, and Ill say it again but Judy Parfitt should have been nominated the Best Supporting Actress Oscar,

"Well, don't look to me, Dolores... All my money is tied up in cash."

Best line, "Sometimes, being a bitch, is all a woman has to hang onto". Anyone can relate to that quote.

That could be said of ALL of the woman in the Royal Family.

“Is he fucking her?”

R3, so much more memorable than Mira Sorvino's performance.

Did it win any Oscars?

I had a huge crush on David Strathairn.

He's such a handsome man.

[Quote]“Is he fucking her?”

"An accident, Dolores, can be an unhappy woman's best friend."

Judy played that role brilliantly.

Wasn’t Christopher Plummer a major cast member?

[Quote]Best line, "Sometimes, being a bitch, is all a woman has to hang onto". Anyone can relate to that quote.

Hear, hear!

R7 I agree about Strathairn. He was nominated for an Oscar for Good Night and Good Luck and should have been nominated for Blue Car. He's still good looking.

What is this from?

David Straithairn is kissing a twink!

R12- He's probably a HOMO in real life.

JJL still looks good

Strathairn is quite haunting in “Nightmare Alley.”

Also starting noted heterosexualist Bradley.

R14 No she doesn’t. Pasty cat lady face. Bitches surgery and injections.

Bonnie and Clyde (1967) still has its 4 main stars still alive: Warren Beatty, Faye, Gene Hackman & Estelle Parsons. It pre-dates Dolores by just over a quarter of a century.

Damn, R17.

They must have all been really young at the time.

The DC cast were all fairly old.

R17- Yet Golden Girls was on TWENTY years later and ALL of it's stars are dead.

[quote]What is this from? David Straithairn is kissing a twink!

It's from the BBC drama McMafia with James Norton.

Judy Parfitt got a best supporting actress nomination for Girl With A Pearl Earring, which I have no recollection of her being in. She was also in the tv series Vera (LOL) and played Bette Davis in the Poirot version of Death On The Nile. And she is of course a regular in Call The Midwife.

And she was in an episode of Murder She Wrote called From Russia With Blood!

The Chase (1966) had a large cast a number of them are still alive (all in the 80s) Jane Fonda, Angie Dickinson, Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, James Fox.

Marlon Brando, E. G. Marshall, Janice Rule, Miriam Hopkins & Martha Hyer are no longer with us.

Judy Parfitt is a great actress and has been in tons of stuff over the years all the way back to The Avengers in the 1960’s. Some of her more recent stuff worth checking out is a show call Funland and also Little Dorritt, she plays wheelchair bound bitches in both.

She's amazing in FUNLAND. If I remember correctly she plays the head crime mob villainess in the series. She never leaves her wheelchair but she wants to turn the entire town into a titty bar, and kill anyone who stops her. It's such a wild character for an older actress and she nails it.

I strongly disagree.

Love this film—enough so that I upgraded the DVD to Blu-ray when Warner put it out a couple years ago. It's the best Stephen King film adaptation by far. Great acting, great story, great visuals and atmosphere. It's one of those movies I can watch anytime.

It also has a surprisingly poignant soundtrack by Danny Elfman.

r18 Estelle Parsons was 40 and Gene Hackman was close to it.

I thought Robert Duvall died years ago! Had no idea he was still alive.

Vera Donovan was one hard-core, ruthless, vindictive bitch, man. An ultra-uber cunt with a heart under the right circumstances, but a cunt nonetheless. "Sometimes, Delores, a husband's brakes may fail while they're on their way home from their mistress." You can just picture her seeing her husband out the front door that day, talking about "Don't forget to be home in time for dinner, Jack. Cocktails at 5!"

Bates and Parfitt gave Oscar-worthy performances. It's a shame they were snubbed.

R29 Jack Donovan was a bastard in his own way. In the novel, Dolores has to dodge his golf balls all summer and she comes to realize he's doing it on purpose. He was also a philanderer who repeatedly stepped out on Vera and the kids.

I bet Betty Bacall fumed at missing out on the Vera Donovan part. Nina Foch read for the role.

I know all that, R31, but come on - having someone whacked is unacceptable. She could have divorced him and still got plenty of money.

I haven't seen Nina Foch in anything beyond Mahogany, 1975, when she played Ross' snooty Department Store manager - a bit part at that.

You haven't seen the first "Tale of the City" or "An American In Paris"?

I have seen AAIP, but not TOTC. Here's a good mystery starring Nina Foch from 1945 - Julia Ross

R33 She didn't have him whacked. It's heavily implied that she did it herself. In the novel, her two children (who were obnoxiously greedy, and always suspected their mother of killing him) were also killed in a convenient car accident years later. Dolores didn't learn about the kids until years later. She had always been told the kids were alive, but simply never visited their bitch of a mother. The revelation shows what a sad monster Vera really was.

Sometimes you have to be a high-ridin' bitch to survive.

Well, that's horrible, R36. I wonder how many real- life Vera Donovans are out here in the world....

None, r37.

I think Nina Foch is probably only remembered today for playing Charlton Heston's adoptive mother in "The Ten Commandments".

Best fucking god damn master class in acting right here!

Judy Parfitt freaking nails it! You're not sure if she's confessing to murdering her husband, expressing remorse, or having severe case of guilty conscience.

Vera Donovan fiddled with her husband's car brakes herself. Paying someone else would have left loose ends, someone who could always come back to either blackmail or worse, testify in court that could get her sent to the chair or gas chamber.

Along same lines Vera had to off her two children Donald and Helga. They die about a year after their father in yet another fatal automobile accident. Again those pesky loose ends. Vera's children were beginning to put two and two together, and didn't have much love apparently for their mother. Oh and there was a thirty million dollar fortune from their father. That is more than enough money (even if neither of the children would have to wait for their share) to make trouble for Vera Donovan such as stir up another investigation into their father's death, and or hire others privately to do so.

Dolores believes Vera's stories when she gives reasons why the children don't visit, including attending her party for eclipse of sun. This is how Dolores inherits all of the Donovan money, there was no one left.....

In end Vera gets Dolores to put her out of her misery so to speak. Besides the delusions she's lived with for many decades the guilt over what she has done must have taken a toll. To kill one's husband is one thing, put to pull a Medea is quite another.

In the novel, Dolores donates all of the money to some orphanage anonymously.

Also, in the novel, Dolores and Joe had several children. One son died in Vietnam. Another son grew up to become Majority Leader of the Maine Senate. And the daughter became an alcoholic journalist who never called or visited.

Vera Donovan also had a long-term lover - her handyman - who surely helped her bump off her family. He later died in another mysterious accident.

Who put Jennifer Jason Leigh in this film, and why?

She is particularly more awful than usual in this.

I thought it was Bridget Fonda.

R42 isn’t it right on brand for her to play tortured, unhappy people? I thought she played miserable well.

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I don't remember it in the movie but in the book Vera Donovan's children are dead and Delores doesn't find out until after Vera is gone

As a high riding bitch, few could equal Judy Parfitt when she put her mind to a role.

Mildred Layton in "Jewel In The Crown" comes to mind. She made Barbie Batchelor's misery her life's work.

See 48:00 onwards.

R45 Anyone who adds "SPOILER" tags to a movie that's nearly 30 years old can use my grill fork as a dildo.

In the movie it's never mentioned that Vera had kids.

She played the rich benefactress to Gene Kelly's struggling artist, R39, in An American in Paris, 1951 - huge hit.

Dolores' husband is dead. He fell into a hole.

"In the movie it's never mentioned that Vera had kids."

Often when book is made into film it isn't unheard of to edit things down for a tighter focus. There is only so much ground that can be covered in about 130 minutes.

We see pictures of her family on table next to book that Vera Donovan reaches for to look up Dolores's name, but other than that, nothing. Unlike that Julian Fellowes some people don't introduce characters then drop them for remaining balance.

Dolores Claiborne was just added to HBO Max, for anyone who wants to re-watch it.

I'm ten minutes in, and I think Jennifer Jason Leigh has already smoked an entire pack of cigarettes.

I'm often repelled by Jennifer Jason Leigh's too-much-ness, but I think that she's spot-on in this. A magnificent movie all around -- totally unappreciated at the time.

Bonnie and Clyde...Dunaway was 27 and Beatty was 32 at the time of filming.