I read the book but the movie is way better. No one else could play Dolores Claiborne like Kathy Bates did. She should have won an oscar for her role. I don't understand why she didn't even got nominated.
Loved her acting and the character she played. She done good in that movie doing in with that scum, but when you think of it, he done himself in. She just led him to the place where he could do it. But seriously, something my mother always told me, if a man ever beats you just remember one thing, at some point he has to sleep. Oh yes, he's gotta sleep at some time!
I don’t mean to diminish the seriousness of this scene, or its topic. But I think Kathy Bates looks fantastic. She is a beautiful voluptuous woman and she is working that dress. I feel odd watching such an intense scene and thinking, man she looks hot!
whats the film called of kathy bates with her family ? and the house that burned down and then they didnt have enough money ... plus they lost the money jar...
I watched this for the first time this week and it is a outstanding film, the work of the three main female actresses was superb. The likes of Megan Fox should watch this to find out what real acting is all about. Whatever happened to the young girl? I am sure this scene is a homage to the technicolour films of the 40's but I could be wrong. I loved Stephen King in high school but I haven't read any of his books in years, I may read this however. David Strathairn is first rate.
I think the Academy dismissed the movie because it was another Stephen King movie, and, without actually watching it, they thought it would be like Misery. If I recall, the movie caught on through word of mouth,particularly via video rentals. I think it's the best movie she's ever done.
Just saw this movie recently an this was a great scene, he totally deserved it! But yeah David strathairn is totally hot and is the dad from the uninvited, totally different in person in both movies, but that's what makes him a great actor!
Kathy Bates is my favorite actress (along with Meryl Streep)! She has such a wide range and is not the stereotypical, Hollywood (size 2) type. True talent!!!
I think her husband recently played on the movie "The Uninvited". It's a horrible movie I regret watching, but I have a keen eye for actors. I'm sure the father in this movie played the father in "The Uninvited". Much older and kinder looking, but I think it's him. Maybe I'll check it.
I love she adapted the accent so well. i lived in the same town this was shot in, as well as Murder She Wrote. boothbay harbor. i loved there for over a year and heard that accent, never got it myself tho. but by far my fave kathy bates movie and stephen king book.
One of the most powerful scenes ever filmed! Kathy Bates and David Strathain (spelling?) were both marvelous in this movie. One of my favorites - thanks for posting!!
Hi hvislysettaros! I also agree with you all the way, hon. I have been through it too. I had a hateful step-father while growing up and a mother who did not give a damn. I had a step-mother who had a good heart, but she had an illness and was not always herself. You aren't the only one. It is hard to find people who are willing to openly talk about their abuses. I am glad you are finding support online at least. Good luck and hang in there! Things will get better! *hugs*
I also agree with everyone onhere who posted comments about parents being so abusive and insensitive to their kids. Dolores Claiborne is a true masterpiece and shows how a loving mother should take care of a horrid situation like this.
I wish every mother was like Doloris. Too bad movies like this are only fiction. Sadly most children these days get sexually abused and no one cares, especially not the parents. Not the mother, the wife of the child molester. She only cares about herself. So don't sit around wondering what is wrong with the world. Now you know!
@hvislysettaros2010 Wow, that sure was a big pile of bullshit. Alright, a lot of kids are abused, but not most of them. And most parents care about their kids. Stop talking about things you evidently know nothing about. This is one of the few books Stephen King wrote that didn't involve anything supernatural - This could be reality. And reality is that most parents care more about their kids than anything else.
@FakeFaced I am so glad you agree. Parents indeed fill their children's minds with bullshit and scare them into eternal secrecy. They indeed know NOTHING about how to love and protect their children, and they sit on their asses complaining about why the world is so effed up. If more of us had the brains and courage to stand against this horrid crime, we could eventually make a difference in the lives of children of the future.
@hvislysettaros2010 Either you are just plain stupid, or you are trying to annoy me. Most parents DO care about their children, and children are NOT abused. You can't just make up statistics in your head and call them facts. I don't think you know anything about child abuse.
@FakeFaced Absolutely! He always tried to make me feel stupid as part of the abuse, but the truth is HE was and still IS the stupid one!!! No, he had NO idea at the time he was being abusive. Child molestation is so normal these days it is really not counted as a form of abuse. Even when the abusers are turned in to the law, they don't get their just punishments. Mothers do not divorce their husbands for being child abusers/molesters. So I guess we all need to give in and accept it is normal. :(
@FakeFaced Right you are about him being so stupid. He will pay in Hell. Fortunately his daughter is a really good person. We are close. So it is possible for lunatics to breed and put good people in this world.
@FakeFaced Haven't heard back from you in a while. I was hoping to send a personal message of thanks to you, but your profile is not set up for that. Anyway, thank-you for understanding, and showing kindness. It is hard to find good people in this world who really care, especially on the net. Any little help and support I can get means a whole lot. Hope you have a great New Year and please keep in touch! :)
@FakeFaced I also agree that women should not suffer at the hands of evil men, but especially children too. This is just acting by very talented individuals. It is however a sad reflection of real life. Child molesters and rapists should definitely not breed.
Kathy Bates was amazing in this, but David Straitharn... wow. He always plays a quiet nice guy. To see him transform into a such a psycho husband for this movie was unreal!
I saw this in the theater when it first came out (I was dying to see it b/c I loved the book, and was so happy that Bates was cast as Dolores). The theater was pact, and I vividly remember everyone just sitting in their seats as the credits started to roll, and then I overheard almost everybody raving about how brilliant the movie and the acting were. We all thought she was a shoe in for best actress that year. Often "horror" movies get overlooked, which is ludicrous.
I was impressed with this beautiful movie. Kathy Bates made this film - absolutely brilliant performance. She should have won the Oscar or at least being nominated for this award. Jennifer Jason Leigh and Judy Parfitt were stunning as well.
Fantastic movie based on a book by genius Stephen King.
this part in the book used to scare me because she described how she had to hit him with a rock after he grabbed her ankle and the way she described his voice was awfull lol
i first saw this when i was 12. i loved it from start to finish. KATHY BATES is a phenomenal actress. she scared the s#@! out of me in MISERY. i was only 7 at the time.
This one of the best scenes in this, one of my favorite films, she finally gets that abuser, ungrateful man back for his insensitive delusional crazy thinking. GOOD FOR HER!!!
Wow great peace acting,thanks for showing this movie,it really lets people see that movies are more than just intertainment but can been seen as a pure form of art,
i love the surrealness of this scene and all of the "flashback" scenes. i love how she jumps higher and farther than she probably did in reality... it's because it's a memory that we, the audience, gets to see her jump so far over the trap. you dig?
The eclipse was symbolic of God turning a blind eye to the murder of Joe, however, her sin did not go unpunished as demonstrated through the next 18 years of imprisonment with Vera (another murderess who got away with murder) and isolation from her successful, yet bitter daughter. The end of Doloreses' imprisonment and reconsilliation with her daughter is such a wonderful, bitter-sweet ending.
Delores' stay with Vera was not imprisonment, as the daughter said Delores could have left her any time, she stayed because they loved each other, they made a life and family of their own when life failed to do it for them,
Delores Claiborne is really a love story between two victimized women.
Precisely right, carmenjones411. Vera is an exacting taskmaster, but not an unsympathetic character. As as betrayed woman herself, once Dolores confesses her plight, it is Vera Donovan who provides the signpost to Dolores' own unshackling. As Vera states with blazing but moistening eyes, "An accident, Dolores, can be an unhappy woman's best friend." Dolores then returns the favor, never abandoning Vera once a stroke has decimated the proud and self-assured woman she had always been.
I read the book first and loved it. Then I watched the movie and loved it as well, though certain things they left out puzzled me, like the backstory to Vera Donovan and what made her such a pained character. Still love this movie, but it's one of King's best books and written in Dolores' voice it's superior to the movie. You'll read it like Kathy Bates is sitting across from you giving a play-by-play. :) She nailed this character and should have been nominated AT LEAST.
This is probably my favorite movie of all time! I love this film!
Kathy Bates is my hero! She is the greatest actress ever!
I could watch this scene alone over and over! And I have! It's soooo powerful!
Personally, I think that the movie outshined the book in every single aspect...but I feel that way with all the Stephen King books I've read....it's a very rare case, but with King, I feel that the movies are always better.
The "well" in this sequence was also on display at the movie theatre in downtown Wolfville for a few months - left by the film company as a momento. The theatre is a 5 minute walk from the Arena where the entire St. George property was built. It was about 10-12 feet tall, with a grassy platform at the top. All the shots you see of Joe hanging are way up in the air, the bottom of the well being the floor level. I am proud to say I have touched the well :) It was eventually discarded. Sad.
From the moment she walks out the door, the movie changes into the largest greenscreen sequence ever used in a film (I think the record still stands). The entire St. George house set was built inside the Acadia University Arena on the drained hockey ice surface. A massive 360-degree greenscreen from floor to ceiling encircled the entire rink. This allowed the unique 'eclipse look' background to be placed-in later. Because the real outdoor set was never going to look like that. Simply amazing.
More details on the indoor set: This thing was massive. Not only the house and yard, but the entire fields to the sides, and the front field where they do the long run to the well - ALL INDOORS with inlaid CGI-enhanced background. Every bush, tree, and blade of grass was brought in. Several dozen 18-wheelers of topsoil too. It grew in there for weeks while they shot. Kept watered, under UV sunlights, everything! I wish they had a "making-of" feature on the DVD...I should check the BluRay!
Hi , i am from India. I saw this movie when i worked in London briefly in 2005. It was showing on the BBC. I was just glued to this till the end of the film. Fantastic film. I remember it to this day. Became a fan of Kathy Bates ever since.
Kathy Bates stated in an interview on "Good Day New York" june/july 2009, Bates said that "Dolores Caliborne" was by far her best and most "proud of" work. She said "playing a character at two ages, the movement the maine accent, the makeup was something I (Bates) stretched myself to do". The academy awards clearly over looked this juicey role! it was pure heaven! Kathy has definitely mastered her craft to the highest level! bravo
@arabia1980 I totally agree with you. This was clearly her best work, even better than Misery (which was brilliant). She should be a two time Oscar winner for best Actress. She was simply astonishing in this movie; in fact, I think the movie itself was worthy of an Oscar nod.
Yeah it's 300 in the book but the movie is never the same as the book. Dolores confronts Joe with the molesting of his daughter way sooner in the book, but it seems like in the movie he just finds out that she knows about it.
Thats true. Something real good, with a great script resulting in one of those doube best- actress winners of course (K. Hepburn, B. Sreisand in 1969)
What I love about this film, is how stephen king is not afraid to venture outside of his comfortable genre, and creates something like this. Truly a great writer, and a fantastic movie.
Kathy Bates has such pretty eyes, juicy lips and a fat juicy butt I'd be chasing her across that damn yard for a whole different reason than Joe and when I caught her she'd get a very severe spanking!.. :)
bellissimo film!!!!!!! agghiacciante la scena quando Vera dice" a volte Dolores per una donna un incidente può essere il miglior amico per una donna"bellissimo il gioco di dominanti cromatiche qnd dolores ricorda c'è una dominante calda mentre nel presente la dominante è fredda....geniale effetto!!!!
Normally I consider King's books to be better than the movies, but Dolores Claiborne is equal in my eyes. Both of them are great. Kathy Bates is a great actress, and I've seen the husband in other movies I just don't know his name.
Oh, and I love the Shawshank reference. I love how most of Stephen King's stories take place in the same universe. Furthermore, I think this was the first time that fact was brought up in one of the movie adaptations.
I couldn't agree more. I have always always loved this film, and the acting is so friggin' deft. This movie is beyond marvelous, and it never loses it's power. I've seen it a million times, but it always holds my interest and takes you to these eerie, haunting, and difficult places.
Kathy Bates is one of the best actresses of our time. Whatever role she plays, whatever movie she's in, she makes the movie! This was my favorite scene in the movie!!
I loved this scene in the movie but you cut it off before the most beautiful part where she's looking down the well and the sky's all red and orange, ah well. =) This is one of my favorite Stephen King Books. xD and this scene was just perfect! unfortunately i hate to say it but the rest of the movie didn't really do the book justice. >.> They took out way too much stuff about Vera including the whole twist to the book. =(
I read the book but the movie is way better. No one else could play Dolores Claiborne like Kathy Bates did. She should have won an oscar for her role. I don't understand why she didn't even got nominated.
LouieArmstronggg 3 days ago
In the book Joe survived the fall and climbed back out, then Dolores struck him in the head with a rock.
awsomesause333 1 week ago
@awsomesause333 oh wow. i need to read the book.
Lilithohr 6 days ago
Loved her acting and the character she played. She done good in that movie doing in with that scum, but when you think of it, he done himself in. She just led him to the place where he could do it. But seriously, something my mother always told me, if a man ever beats you just remember one thing, at some point he has to sleep. Oh yes, he's gotta sleep at some time!
pjgumby 3 weeks ago
Love this movie!
billyboylb 1 month ago
oh woah is Joe.....
oceansdoor1 1 month ago
Best movie based on Kings novel. :)
vladi569 1 month ago
I don’t mean to diminish the seriousness of this scene, or its topic. But I think Kathy Bates looks fantastic. She is a beautiful voluptuous woman and she is working that dress. I feel odd watching such an intense scene and thinking, man she looks hot!
okiemex 2 months ago
she is and was such a strong woman,both character and person
joshualee2479 3 months ago
my fav movie ---- the best thing King EVER did
swimfish29 3 months ago
my fav movie ----
swimfish29 3 months ago
whats the film called of kathy bates with her family ? and the house that burned down and then they didnt have enough money ... plus they lost the money jar...
Sliemadb1 4 months ago
@Sliemadb1 I'm pretty sure the movie your thinking of is "A home of our own" 1993. Edward Furlong (What ever happened too...?) played her oldest son.
jamesschender 4 months ago
Oh Kathy I Love You, amazing!
bull2046 4 months ago
Kathy I love you
orbit3386 5 months ago
That was real smooth of her. She killed him without actually killing him.
sweettyme16 5 months ago
Reminds me of hitchcock's vertigo in terms of colors, scenery and cinematography
citizenlen 5 months ago
the end of yellowturd
demonethagreat 5 months ago
magnifica!!!!!!!!!!!
orosteguii 6 months ago
Human debris getting what it deserves?
Puppatoons 7 months ago
amazing
LiAmPaRrY96 7 months ago
transcribe audio at 1:09 lol
TheGamerLand 7 months ago in playlist Films
This is a classic!
ilonabologna8 8 months ago
I watched this for the first time this week and it is a outstanding film, the work of the three main female actresses was superb. The likes of Megan Fox should watch this to find out what real acting is all about. Whatever happened to the young girl? I am sure this scene is a homage to the technicolour films of the 40's but I could be wrong. I loved Stephen King in high school but I haven't read any of his books in years, I may read this however. David Strathairn is first rate.
johnny67448 8 months ago
Its all in the eclipse.
Little Tall Island....later visited by the demon Andre Linoge, during The Storm of the Century.
MDkid1 8 months ago
A brilliant scene...dedicated to every woman that's ever suffered at the hands of evil men.
Thejbirdy 9 months ago
I love you, Kathy =')
MariannaGiglio 9 months ago
Joe, you sick, evil bastard. I loved this scene and this movie. Kathy Bates was superb (as she is in every movie she's in).
DarkDreams420 9 months ago
this should happen to all pedophiles
Daffneyfan 9 months ago 2
she mentioned "Shawshank Prison".
goonwichabigass 9 months ago
@goonwichabigass All part of the 'Stephen King-dom'.
Dristarg 9 months ago
Keep pressing 1:00
drinndrann 10 months ago
I would be one of those cliche douches who say things like "But the book was better!"
But then I thought a bit.
We have movies for a REASON.
So that you don't have to send a week listening to a single story.
And you can get on with your life.
PRAISE THE MODERN AGE! (and Jesus <3)
ilikemayo 10 months ago
I think the Academy dismissed the movie because it was another Stephen King movie, and, without actually watching it, they thought it would be like Misery. If I recall, the movie caught on through word of mouth,particularly via video rentals. I think it's the best movie she's ever done.
mlc2005 10 months ago
Just saw this movie recently an this was a great scene, he totally deserved it! But yeah David strathairn is totally hot and is the dad from the uninvited, totally different in person in both movies, but that's what makes him a great actor!
cmuc6575 11 months ago
Kathy Bates is my favorite actress (along with Meryl Streep)! She has such a wide range and is not the stereotypical, Hollywood (size 2) type. True talent!!!
Plus...she hails from Dallas (SMU)!
texrah 11 months ago
Awesome!!! He deserved that shit!
ZoeyAngelG 11 months ago
Fantastic actress!!!
Daniele005 11 months ago
One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies...Strathairn was HOT.......still is a damn good looking man.
TurnItBlueToYou1 11 months ago
I think her husband recently played on the movie "The Uninvited". It's a horrible movie I regret watching, but I have a keen eye for actors. I'm sure the father in this movie played the father in "The Uninvited". Much older and kinder looking, but I think it's him. Maybe I'll check it.
ProRanting 11 months ago
its rare to see a movie just as good as the book :)
JesseWadeTaylor 1 year ago
it was just 3000 dollars? why is he willing to kill for 3000 dollars?
jeffbrister2004 1 year ago
@jeffbrister2004 nor just that he fucked and raped his own doughter...
tweetingrobin1969 11 months ago
@jeffbrister2004 because he molested her daughter!
TheGamerLand 11 months ago
I love she adapted the accent so well. i lived in the same town this was shot in, as well as Murder She Wrote. boothbay harbor. i loved there for over a year and heard that accent, never got it myself tho. but by far my fave kathy bates movie and stephen king book.
TheBodyJax 1 year ago
One of the most powerful scenes ever filmed! Kathy Bates and David Strathain (spelling?) were both marvelous in this movie. One of my favorites - thanks for posting!!
Sandmaven 1 year ago
Hi hvislysettaros! I also agree with you all the way, hon. I have been through it too. I had a hateful step-father while growing up and a mother who did not give a damn. I had a step-mother who had a good heart, but she had an illness and was not always herself. You aren't the only one. It is hard to find people who are willing to openly talk about their abuses. I am glad you are finding support online at least. Good luck and hang in there! Things will get better! *hugs*
detsomengang 1 year ago
I also agree with everyone onhere who posted comments about parents being so abusive and insensitive to their kids. Dolores Claiborne is a true masterpiece and shows how a loving mother should take care of a horrid situation like this.
maktorri9 1 year ago
I wish every mother was like Doloris. Too bad movies like this are only fiction. Sadly most children these days get sexually abused and no one cares, especially not the parents. Not the mother, the wife of the child molester. She only cares about herself. So don't sit around wondering what is wrong with the world. Now you know!
hvislysettaros2010 1 year ago
@hvislysettaros2010 Wow, that sure was a big pile of bullshit. Alright, a lot of kids are abused, but not most of them. And most parents care about their kids. Stop talking about things you evidently know nothing about. This is one of the few books Stephen King wrote that didn't involve anything supernatural - This could be reality. And reality is that most parents care more about their kids than anything else.
FakeFaced 1 year ago
@FakeFaced I am so glad you agree. Parents indeed fill their children's minds with bullshit and scare them into eternal secrecy. They indeed know NOTHING about how to love and protect their children, and they sit on their asses complaining about why the world is so effed up. If more of us had the brains and courage to stand against this horrid crime, we could eventually make a difference in the lives of children of the future.
hvislysettaros2010 1 year ago
@hvislysettaros2010 Either you are just plain stupid, or you are trying to annoy me. Most parents DO care about their children, and children are NOT abused. You can't just make up statistics in your head and call them facts. I don't think you know anything about child abuse.
FakeFaced 1 year ago
@FakeFaced Absolutely! He always tried to make me feel stupid as part of the abuse, but the truth is HE was and still IS the stupid one!!! No, he had NO idea at the time he was being abusive. Child molestation is so normal these days it is really not counted as a form of abuse. Even when the abusers are turned in to the law, they don't get their just punishments. Mothers do not divorce their husbands for being child abusers/molesters. So I guess we all need to give in and accept it is normal. :(
hvislysettaros2010 1 year ago
@hvislysettaros2010 You are too stupid to have a discussion with. I hope you don't breed.
FakeFaced 1 year ago
@FakeFaced Right you are about him being so stupid. He will pay in Hell. Fortunately his daughter is a really good person. We are close. So it is possible for lunatics to breed and put good people in this world.
hvislysettaros2010 1 year ago
@FakeFaced Haven't heard back from you in a while. I was hoping to send a personal message of thanks to you, but your profile is not set up for that. Anyway, thank-you for understanding, and showing kindness. It is hard to find good people in this world who really care, especially on the net. Any little help and support I can get means a whole lot. Hope you have a great New Year and please keep in touch! :)
hvislysettaros2010 1 year ago
@hvislysettaros2010 And I hope you drink acid :-)
FakeFaced 1 year ago
@FakeFaced Thanks, even though I'm not quite sure what that means. I know it's a compliment though. Have a great evening! :)
hvislysettaros2010 1 year ago
@FakeFaced I also agree that women should not suffer at the hands of evil men, but especially children too. This is just acting by very talented individuals. It is however a sad reflection of real life. Child molesters and rapists should definitely not breed.
detsomengang 8 months ago
Kathy Bates was amazing in this, but David Straitharn... wow. He always plays a quiet nice guy. To see him transform into a such a psycho husband for this movie was unreal!
ch355555 1 year ago
AWESOME ACTRESS.
Jade7843498 1 year ago
KATHY BATES TEH BEST...GIVE US A SIGN WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO AGAINST THE INJUstice....GREAT KATHY...
sahbia01 1 year ago
Kathy Bates... one of THE best character actresses absolutely ever.
SteelHyaena 1 year ago
Kathy Bates is without a doubt a great actress. She should have gotten an Oscar for this.
caribeandude1 1 year ago
Kathy is indeed a great actress, this is one of my two favorite scenes.
MRO1970 1 year ago
her husband was such a low life scumbag!One of the worst fathers ever!
mensahcarrelle 1 year ago
well , i have to log in lol.
pnecro 1 year ago
Joe deserved everything he got coming to him from Dolores, thank God she "put him away" in that well
Daffneyfan 1 year ago
Weiß irgendwer, wo ich den ganzen Film sehen kann? (am besten in deutsch)
Does anybody know where I can see the full movie? (best in german)
Bivalvinchen 1 year ago
couldn't wait for this asshole to die.
phoenixfirelove 1 year ago
is this before or after misery
sparkyinbath 1 year ago
@sparkyinbath after "Misery"
Daffneyfan 1 year ago
I saw this in the theater when it first came out (I was dying to see it b/c I loved the book, and was so happy that Bates was cast as Dolores). The theater was pact, and I vividly remember everyone just sitting in their seats as the credits started to roll, and then I overheard almost everybody raving about how brilliant the movie and the acting were. We all thought she was a shoe in for best actress that year. Often "horror" movies get overlooked, which is ludicrous.
mlc2005 1 year ago
thats what the hell he gets!!!!
angelianna2000 1 year ago
rent the the DVD to watch the movie again with Director's comments. That's when it really sinks in.....sometimes being a bitch.....
catamia123 1 year ago
Amazing movie and amazing performance...Kathy is superb
lauranmary 1 year ago
@lauranmary Suprema!!!!!!!
orosteguii 1 year ago
I was impressed with this beautiful movie. Kathy Bates made this film - absolutely brilliant performance. She should have won the Oscar or at least being nominated for this award. Jennifer Jason Leigh and Judy Parfitt were stunning as well.
Fantastic movie based on a book by genius Stephen King.
Magnolia296 1 year ago 2
this part in the book used to scare me because she described how she had to hit him with a rock after he grabbed her ankle and the way she described his voice was awfull lol
theebadnun 1 year ago 2
i first saw this when i was 12. i loved it from start to finish. KATHY BATES is a phenomenal actress. she scared the s#@! out of me in MISERY. i was only 7 at the time.
chyman 1 year ago 2
This one of the best scenes in this, one of my favorite films, she finally gets that abuser, ungrateful man back for his insensitive delusional crazy thinking. GOOD FOR HER!!!
2cruiz4vr 1 year ago 2
Wow great peace acting,thanks for showing this movie,it really lets people see that movies are more than just intertainment but can been seen as a pure form of art,
adelpho3 1 year ago 3
Jesus, this is just pure art, this movie should have swept the Academy that year
nashvillespiker 1 year ago 3
This scene would be better described as "Total eclipse".
kaiyno 1 year ago 3
kathy is AMAZING iloveherrrrrrr. the other guy is a great actor as well.
CHRIS12345and7 1 year ago 4
i love the surrealness of this scene and all of the "flashback" scenes. i love how she jumps higher and farther than she probably did in reality... it's because it's a memory that we, the audience, gets to see her jump so far over the trap. you dig?
nanoycram 2 years ago 5
Kathy owns.
ifuseekamy 2 years ago 4
@zoll71
Yes! David Strathairn is really EVIL!
yukirintheworld 2 years ago
Joe gets owned by Dolores lol
mikeyxr7 2 years ago 4
what ? what are you going to do ? lol
robertdennis58 2 years ago
Such a great movie. Both amazing actors and both well done performances by these two.
HolySasquatchTurd 2 years ago 3
Kathy Bates in nothing short of incredible! She is such a great actress!!
DarkDreams420 2 years ago 5
The eclipse was symbolic of God turning a blind eye to the murder of Joe, however, her sin did not go unpunished as demonstrated through the next 18 years of imprisonment with Vera (another murderess who got away with murder) and isolation from her successful, yet bitter daughter. The end of Doloreses' imprisonment and reconsilliation with her daughter is such a wonderful, bitter-sweet ending.
BedfordMilw 2 years ago
@BedfordMilw
Delores' stay with Vera was not imprisonment, as the daughter said Delores could have left her any time, she stayed because they loved each other, they made a life and family of their own when life failed to do it for them,
Delores Claiborne is really a love story between two victimized women.
carmenjones411 2 years ago 2
Precisely right, carmenjones411. Vera is an exacting taskmaster, but not an unsympathetic character. As as betrayed woman herself, once Dolores confesses her plight, it is Vera Donovan who provides the signpost to Dolores' own unshackling. As Vera states with blazing but moistening eyes, "An accident, Dolores, can be an unhappy woman's best friend." Dolores then returns the favor, never abandoning Vera once a stroke has decimated the proud and self-assured woman she had always been.
dvlaries 2 years ago 4
go fuck ya self joe.
poppys309 2 years ago 3
Kathy got cheated out of an Oscar that time. At least she won (and well deserved it) for Misery.
ifuseekamy 2 years ago 33
He went down screamin like a pig hahahaaaa
KhmerSerey1 2 years ago
Kathy Bates is such a fabulous actress.
claritysabbath 2 years ago 19
@claritysabbath AGREED!
MikeysGayToday 2 years ago 2
increible, ella ademas de hermosa es una gran gran actriz
onofre1971 2 years ago 3
this is my favorite part out of the movie. the son-of-bitch deserves to die.
warjdani 2 years ago 5
I just wish they would film Gerald's Game now! Cripes, I'd love that!
artsy24 2 years ago
Me too. I wish I could find my Gerald's Game book. I think it got lost in the move. :(
xXPersephoneXx 2 years ago
I love that book.... I read it when I was pregnant with my son, though.... BIG mistake...lol.... damn thing gave me nightmares
jasonsbitch73 2 years ago
I read the book first and loved it. Then I watched the movie and loved it as well, though certain things they left out puzzled me, like the backstory to Vera Donovan and what made her such a pained character. Still love this movie, but it's one of King's best books and written in Dolores' voice it's superior to the movie. You'll read it like Kathy Bates is sitting across from you giving a play-by-play. :) She nailed this character and should have been nominated AT LEAST.
artsy24 2 years ago
This is probably my favorite movie of all time! I love this film!
Kathy Bates is my hero! She is the greatest actress ever!
I could watch this scene alone over and over! And I have! It's soooo powerful!
Personally, I think that the movie outshined the book in every single aspect...but I feel that way with all the Stephen King books I've read....it's a very rare case, but with King, I feel that the movies are always better.
Misery is another great one :)
Just fantastic!
RubyMermaid89 2 years ago 6
Just finished the book. Movie doesn't do it even a fraction of a bit of justice.
smellslikechildren1 2 years ago
The "well" in this sequence was also on display at the movie theatre in downtown Wolfville for a few months - left by the film company as a momento. The theatre is a 5 minute walk from the Arena where the entire St. George property was built. It was about 10-12 feet tall, with a grassy platform at the top. All the shots you see of Joe hanging are way up in the air, the bottom of the well being the floor level. I am proud to say I have touched the well :) It was eventually discarded. Sad.
kevinwayte 2 years ago
From the moment she walks out the door, the movie changes into the largest greenscreen sequence ever used in a film (I think the record still stands). The entire St. George house set was built inside the Acadia University Arena on the drained hockey ice surface. A massive 360-degree greenscreen from floor to ceiling encircled the entire rink. This allowed the unique 'eclipse look' background to be placed-in later. Because the real outdoor set was never going to look like that. Simply amazing.
kevinwayte 2 years ago
More details on the indoor set: This thing was massive. Not only the house and yard, but the entire fields to the sides, and the front field where they do the long run to the well - ALL INDOORS with inlaid CGI-enhanced background. Every bush, tree, and blade of grass was brought in. Several dozen 18-wheelers of topsoil too. It grew in there for weeks while they shot. Kept watered, under UV sunlights, everything! I wish they had a "making-of" feature on the DVD...I should check the BluRay!
kevinwayte 2 years ago
somebody please upload this movie please I beg ya''''help I wanna see it plese
HipHopcheerleader 2 years ago
Hi , i am from India. I saw this movie when i worked in London briefly in 2005. It was showing on the BBC. I was just glued to this till the end of the film. Fantastic film. I remember it to this day. Became a fan of Kathy Bates ever since.
vakkachan007 2 years ago 5
Kathy Bates stated in an interview on "Good Day New York" june/july 2009, Bates said that "Dolores Caliborne" was by far her best and most "proud of" work. She said "playing a character at two ages, the movement the maine accent, the makeup was something I (Bates) stretched myself to do". The academy awards clearly over looked this juicey role! it was pure heaven! Kathy has definitely mastered her craft to the highest level! bravo
arabia1980 2 years ago 29
Thanks for the information. I just watched it. Glad that Kathy Bates mentioned Dolores as her most proud of work.
Dufrense1978 2 years ago 8
Read the book its awsome also
StallionTrevor 2 years ago 2
@arabia1980 I totally agree with you. This was clearly her best work, even better than Misery (which was brilliant). She should be a two time Oscar winner for best Actress. She was simply astonishing in this movie; in fact, I think the movie itself was worthy of an Oscar nod.
mlc2005 1 year ago
Yeah it's 300 in the book but the movie is never the same as the book. Dolores confronts Joe with the molesting of his daughter way sooner in the book, but it seems like in the movie he just finds out that she knows about it.
Chocoladdicted 2 years ago
she said that Joe spended 500 bucks... wasn't it 300 in the book??
m3talrul3r 2 years ago
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Chocoladdicted 2 years ago
Kathy gives an amazing performance in this movie.
smellslikechildren1 2 years ago 4
The lighting is also amazing in this scene. This is one of the greatest scenes in movie history. I wish the whole film was up on here.
michellestmarie 2 years ago 2
One of a few best performances by an actress EVER! I'd love to see her and Streep together. THose two are the greatest! PERIOD.
marekerhardt 2 years ago
That would be awesome!! The two greatest actresses of our time!!
NashvilleJermz 2 years ago
Thats true. Something real good, with a great script resulting in one of those doube best- actress winners of course (K. Hepburn, B. Sreisand in 1969)
marekerhardt 2 years ago
he got what he deserves ! LET GOD JUDGE HIM! I WOULD KILL HIM OR ANYONE WHO RAPED MY DAUGHTER !!!!
bobcrzy54 2 years ago 5
Thanx for posting really enjoyed
soadfan33 2 years ago
You are welcome :)
Dufrense1978 2 years ago
This should have brought Bates a second Oscar, and she wasn't even nominated. Shame on you, Academy.
dvlaries 2 years ago 4
A real travesty! THis was better than Mysery. She is tremendous!!!!!!
marekerhardt 2 years ago
BEST thing KING EVER wrote! Bar none...
marekerhardt 2 years ago
agreed,but i think misery was a better flik
100percentHARDCORE 2 years ago
She is a great actress and this was a great movie. top notch
md991free 2 years ago
What I love about this film, is how stephen king is not afraid to venture outside of his comfortable genre, and creates something like this. Truly a great writer, and a fantastic movie.
killoa2002 2 years ago
What a great actress.....
anisete46 2 years ago 5
what a great film , just show s life can be a bitch , carma was justified
seedfreed 2 years ago 2
she's sooooooo cute *-*
Jade7843498 2 years ago
esta pelicula es sublime me encanta y adoro a las actrises peliculonnnnnn.
gracias x subir
motulo04 2 years ago
Kathy Bates has such pretty eyes, juicy lips and a fat juicy butt I'd be chasing her across that damn yard for a whole different reason than Joe and when I caught her she'd get a very severe spanking!.. :)
Sonnyskookoo 2 years ago 4
wtf??
dragonslayer101010 2 years ago
qnd joe cade nel pozzo a me da l'impressione che proprio il pozzo abbia qualche legame con eclissi sembrano entrambi buchi neri....o sbaglio????
725h 2 years ago
bellissimo film!!!!!!! agghiacciante la scena quando Vera dice" a volte Dolores per una donna un incidente può essere il miglior amico per una donna"bellissimo il gioco di dominanti cromatiche qnd dolores ricorda c'è una dominante calda mentre nel presente la dominante è fredda....geniale effetto!!!!
725h 2 years ago
The book kill scene was heaps more epic, but this is still good.
thatpeople 2 years ago
just reading the book at the moment --- this great scene has stirred my interest-- thx for posting
poacher36 2 years ago
Normally I consider King's books to be better than the movies, but Dolores Claiborne is equal in my eyes. Both of them are great. Kathy Bates is a great actress, and I've seen the husband in other movies I just don't know his name.
Merrique83 2 years ago
David Strathairn is "Joe" and a great actor. The New England accents were dead on! They were all robbed for an Oscar for this movie!
RW112271 2 years ago 3
In a rare case, the book bored me. The movie was better! Kathy Bates is tremendous!
texrah 2 years ago 4
Kathy bates is a legend,
lauramack01 2 years ago 4
This movie is great, although the book is better (isn't it always so...?)
Do you have the means to put up the entire movie on youtube? I would be eternally grateful if you did!
noladynotramp 2 years ago 3
God, the book is so much better.
TheTeenageTacoCory 2 years ago
Agree i read the book, and it was so much better... and you know why > because you can imagine ur own world while reading a book..the way you want it
DorianGabriello 2 years ago
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orosteguii 2 years ago
the best part of the movie when he drops into the well. excellent movie.
changling21 2 years ago 2
YES
Deidararox1231 2 years ago
so does he climb back up at all??
glass3sg33k 2 years ago
haha nope. he's dead.
roachiekiedis 2 years ago
i saw this movie in the middle of the night
...and I belive i still have chills brrrrr
calledartist 2 years ago
i dunno bout u guys but id bang cathy bates
suphyte 2 years ago
Do you have the part when Selina remembers being molested on the ferry? That part is so disturbing.
Sotnas 2 years ago 2
Oh, and I love the Shawshank reference. I love how most of Stephen King's stories take place in the same universe. Furthermore, I think this was the first time that fact was brought up in one of the movie adaptations.
Sotnas 2 years ago
That motherfucker got he deserved. I love this movie. I haven't seen it years though. I might have to watch it now.
Sotnas 2 years ago 2
ye wat a pervert
suphyte 2 years ago
One of the best 20 movies of all time! The Oscars can be so wrong at times and they were very wrong to pass this movie up!
Monsignor997 2 years ago 2
I couldn't agree more. I have always always loved this film, and the acting is so friggin' deft. This movie is beyond marvelous, and it never loses it's power. I've seen it a million times, but it always holds my interest and takes you to these eerie, haunting, and difficult places.
dercola7474 2 years ago 2
wow that's chilling
bg11215 3 years ago
this is the best movie of all time
helmivach 3 years ago 2
Kathy Bates is one of the best actresses of our time. Whatever role she plays, whatever movie she's in, she makes the movie! This was my favorite scene in the movie!!
PaleBlueMoonlight 3 years ago 2
I love this movie event though ii just saw it the other day but i love it Stephen King ur a genius!!!!!
HampteenProductions 3 years ago 3
This is one of my favorite scenes in the film. Great acting on Kathy Bates side. This and the trial scene near the end are awesome.
lupoistheman1 3 years ago 3
Dolores' Revenge
OneoftheImmortals 3 years ago 3
I loved this scene in the movie but you cut it off before the most beautiful part where she's looking down the well and the sky's all red and orange, ah well. =) This is one of my favorite Stephen King Books. xD and this scene was just perfect! unfortunately i hate to say it but the rest of the movie didn't really do the book justice. >.> They took out way too much stuff about Vera including the whole twist to the book. =(
Dalthis555 3 years ago 6
what are you talking about the hole part was funny
jmr1233 3 years ago
how Sharon Stone (Casino) got nominated for best acting Oscar over Kathy is BEYOND shocking... Her portrayal as Dolores was AMAZING!
fortheloveoflaughs3 3 years ago 4
4:10 = owned!
Corechase 3 years ago 4
David Straitharn is one of the most underrated actors out there.
dave0mary 3 years ago 9
yeah, you are right. I also think so.
ZAPjiji 3 years ago 2
wishv you or someone would put the whole movie on here
arangel06 3 years ago