The Stephen King industry clatters on, with a stretched-out little wisp whose main distinction in the canon of King adaptations is the attention to Maine accents: "Stawp thaht," etc. The story is a straightforward either/or proposition. Did the housekeeper kill the crotchety old widow or did she not? Did she, while we're at it, kill her own abusive husband twenty years earlier? The capacious and randomly ordered flashbacks take their own sweet time telling us. Very committed performances from Kathy Bates (perhaps in repayment for her Oscar from another King adaptation, Misery) and Jennifer Jason Leigh as the housekeeper's smoking, drinking, pill-popping daughter. With Christopher Plummer and David Strathairn; directed by Taylor Hackford. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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