Stephen King: Ranking His Films From Worst To Best

13. Dolores Claiborne

One of the lesser-known but better-reviewed Stephen King adaptations, the novel too is one of King's smaller but well-liked works. It's pretty experimental, too, written as a paragraph-less, chapter-less monologue of a confession from the titular domestic servant. Again, Dolores Claiborne features little of the supernatural, save for a couple of €œtelepathic visions€ which are open to interpretation. The book was adapted into more of a straight narrative, rather than having Dolores (Kathy Bates) narrate the events of her life to a police interrogator. But the story is much the same, as she struggles to convince her arresting officer that she didn't murder her employer. She does, however, admit to orchestrating the death of her husband two decades earlier, after discovering that he had molested their teenage daughter. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays the adult daughter, who returns to her home town to support her mother, facing painful memories of her past. Another tough watch, but full of brilliant performances.