Jennifer Jason Leigh becomes a junkie and falls in love with her partner, played by Jason Patric. Her next film, "Single White Female" (1992), was a surprise box-office success, bringing Leigh to her largest mainstream audience yet, portraying a mentally ill woman who terrorizes roommate Bridget Fonda. Leigh was awarded the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain and nominated for Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress. Leigh co-starred with Kathy Bates as a tormented, pill-popping woman hiding a history of childhood sexual abuse in the adaptation of Stephen King's novel "Dolores Claiborne" (1995). Leigh achieved her greatest acclaim in the role
The Moment (2013 film) reviews. Ronnie Scheib of "Variety" wrote, "Jennifer Jason Leigh is as radiant and uncompromising as ever in this convoluted and repetitive psychological thriller". Frank Scheck of "The Hollywood Reporter" wrote, "Although Jennifer Jason Leigh delivers a compelling turn, this Hitchcock-style drama ties itself in too many knots." Ben Kenigsberg of "The New York Times" compared it to the work of David Lynch, but said that the film's conceit "seems too pat to undergird a work of genuine surrealism". Betsy Sharkey of "The Los Angeles Times" called it "more muddled than the mind and the maze it is caught up in."