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...designer Isaac Mizrahi: "When my mother was a little girl, she wanted to grow up and be Rita Hayworth or a ballerina. Now all the little girls want to be Linda Evangelista or Naomi Campbell. I don't think girls today want to grow up to be Jennifer Jason Leigh...
Starring Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt & Christopher Plummer drected by Taylor Hackford...
...Parfitt), her long-time employer. Detective John Mackey (Christopher Plummer), who investigated Joe's death but couldn't pin it on her, returns to investigate the death of Vera. He is determined to nail Dolores for it. The film departs from the book when Dolores' daughter Selena (Jennifer Jason Leigh), seen only as a child in flashbacks in the novel, returns to Little Tall Island after fifteen years when she hears her mother is being investigated for murder...
...adult Selena should not be in the movie. In King's book, she disappears as a teen-ager; Gilroy brings her back tediously to confront the issues involving her father's death. She should have stayed in the void. Leigh's Selena is a whiskey-swilling, cigarette-smoking caricature of a journalist, who spends the majority of her scenes complaining. Jennifer Jason Leigh has her moments with Selena, especially in the epiphany scene on the ferry, but for the most part Leigh's acting skills are wasted by the script. She just reprises her addiction roles from "Dorothy Parker...
...also a tough-minded, coarse-tongued woman who is supporting herself by taking care of Mrs. Donovan (Judy Parfitt), a rich-bitch invalid, and mourning her estrangement from Selena, her deeply disturbed daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Precisely because of the absence of decent men in her life, Dolores is obliged to combine traditional masculine and feminine roles in one surprising, ultimately endearing persona...