Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh are great in this intense, engrossing, first-rate Stephen King mystery. When housekeeper Dolores Claiborne (Bates) emerges as the chief suspect for the murder of her elderly employer, Dolores's daughter, Selena (Leigh), returns home. Convinced that her mother is guilty not just of the recent murder, but also of another suspicious death some years previously, Selena gradually comes to believe her mother's version of events. But there are more baffling twists to come in this ingenious movie.

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