Dolores Claiborne: parents' guide

Sexual violence: a father molests his young teen daughter, implied and partly depicted. He also beats his wife in harsh domestic scenes, and later dies after falling down a dry well. An elderly woman's fall down the stairs is shown.

Heavy, frequent profanity: Movieguide counted about 49 obscenities and 25 profanities, including f-words and s-words, much of it from the abusive husband.

No nudity or sex scenes, but there is explicit sexual talk, and the father's molestation of his daughter is implied and partly shown, including a recovered memory of him forcing her to touch him.

The husband is an abusive alcoholic who is often drunk, and the adult daughter, a journalist, struggles with depression and abuses alcohol and pills.

Tense, haunting flashbacks, explosive confrontations, an eerie solar eclipse framing a man's death, an elderly woman's agonizing fall and plea to die, and the painful surfacing of a buried memory of abuse.