Sometimes being a bitch is ...

...all a woman has to hang on to.

Again, I wish I had thought of this first but Stephen King did in his book Dolores Claiborne. I watched the movie yesterday night - as a part of our 'Saturday night have nothing better to do except be part of a movie marathon'. Started off with this ancient Hitchcock "Notorious" black and white but forgettable movie and then Dolores. Something about the movie made me want to write a post on it. Maybe the half-witty line (in the title of the post) women keep chanting at various dramatic junctures, maybe it was the brilliantly realistic acting by Dolores (Kathy Bates) or the violently optimistic end.

In a nutshell, the plot is of a housekeeper accused of murdering her employer of 22 years. Flashback to 1975, when a timely accident killed Dolores's husband during the solar eclipse (very metaphoric!). Dolores seems to have the most amaingly shitty life possible, whther it be with her employers, her hub and worst of all the relationship she has with her grown daughter . But somehow inspite of all the child abuse, wife abuse, employee abuse happening in the flick, Dolores' character was so much more than just a tear-jerker. I am not a Stephen King fan but this one was definitely worth a watch.