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Dolores Claiborne (1995), an underrated, most quoteable cult classic

Sometimes you have to be a high-riding BITCH to survive!

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by Anonymousreply 24August 21, 2025 6:05 AM

Six pins, Dolores! Not five. Six.

by Anonymousreply 1August 20, 2025 11:57 PM

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman’s got to hold on to.”

by Anonymousreply 2August 20, 2025 11:58 PM

Has he fucked her?!

by Anonymousreply 3August 21, 2025 12:01 AM

My favorite Stephen King film adaptation. Another great performance by Kathy Bates. People who have not read the novel are not aware that it is a "first person" format, told in a monologue by the main character.

Another "first person" novel turned into a movie is "Addie Pray", which became the movie Paper Moon. Since only a little over half of the novel was used, they could have done a sequel. Too late now, Ryan O'Neal dead and Tatum a few years shy of collecting Social Security.

by Anonymousreply 4August 21, 2025 12:16 AM

Kathy Bates and Judy Parfitt should've won Oscars. They weren't even nominated.

by Anonymousreply 5August 21, 2025 12:23 AM

I remember thinking Jennifer Jason Leigh gave one of the worst performances in a studio film I'd seen in years. She was so bad it ruined a lot of what was working.

by Anonymousreply 6August 21, 2025 12:25 AM

R5, Kathy Bates and Judy Parfitt >>>>>>>>> Susan Sarandon and whomever won that Best Supporting Actress award that year

by Anonymousreply 7August 21, 2025 12:26 AM

Saw this 1 years after it was released. It's a favorite. I've been obsessed with Judy Parfitt since then.

"GET RID OF THIS DISGUST-TING SOFA!"

"I'll have my eclipse"

"men die, and leave wives their money!"

by Anonymousreply 8August 21, 2025 12:29 AM

R7 Mira Sorvino

by Anonymousreply 9August 21, 2025 12:30 AM

I want my China pig!!!

by Anonymousreply 10August 21, 2025 12:33 AM

"Sometimes an accident can be an unhappy woman's best friend." I'm surprised that I remember that line.

by Anonymousreply 11August 21, 2025 12:33 AM

A thankless role for David Strathaim but someone had to play the character.

by Anonymousreply 12August 21, 2025 12:35 AM

Dolores gets all the attention. We worked for that batch as well and are always overlooked.

by Anonymousreply 13August 21, 2025 12:36 AM

R6 I didn't like her in the film, either. I did think she was rather good in Single White Female, however.

by Anonymousreply 14August 21, 2025 12:39 AM

R6, I didn't think she was that bad?

I will always remember the scene where she looks straight into a bathroom mirror and sees the back of her head.

by Anonymousreply 15August 21, 2025 12:41 AM

JJL is the reason I avoided this for years. She is good in Miami Blues, though the accent wavers, but most of her films are a pass for me.

by Anonymousreply 16August 21, 2025 12:43 AM

R9, Mira was much more memorable in Romy and Michelle.

by Anonymousreply 17August 21, 2025 12:48 AM

Just packin’ up the speedboat so’s I can make my big escape!

Sorry, are ya? I bet you haven’t been sorry since you needed to use the pay toilet and the string on your pet dime broke!

Vera? The way she got? It’s a wonder I didn’t say it every hour. You go ahead and scribble that down in your pad there, Mister Mackey. Just so long as you write that sayin’ a thing and doin’ it are two different things. But then your wife probably already told you that!

by Anonymousreply 18August 21, 2025 12:50 AM

R17 That's a fun movie.

by Anonymousreply 19August 21, 2025 1:09 AM

I agree OP. It was way underrated.

by Anonymousreply 20August 21, 2025 1:22 AM

"Sorry, Delores. All my money is tied up in cash."

by Anonymousreply 21August 21, 2025 1:33 AM

Still have nightmares about that abandoned hole and poor David Strathairn he was so cute.

by Anonymousreply 22August 21, 2025 2:02 AM

It was just a movie.

by Anonymousreply 23August 21, 2025 2:03 AM

Judy Parfitt was robbed!

by Anonymousreply 24August 21, 2025 6:05 AM
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