Misery is a 1990 American psychological thriller film directed by Rob Reiner based on Stephen King’s 1987 novel of the same name. The film stars James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Richard Farnsworth, and Frances Sternhagen. The movie was released on November 30, 1990 in the United States. It received highly positive reviews and was a box office success.
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Misery is a 1990 American psychological thriller film directed by Rob Reiner based on Stephen King’s 1987 novel of the same name. The film stars James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Richard Farnsworth, and Frances Sternhagen. It is about an obsessive fan who holds an author captive and forces him to write a story. The movie was released on November 30, 1990 in the United States. It received highly positive reviews and was a box office success. Bates’ performance drew widespread praise from critics and won her the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 63rd Academy Awards. King himself has stated that Misery is one of his top ten favorite film adaptations. In actuality, the figure he saw is a waitress, who tells Paul that she is his number one fan. Paul then sees Annie approaching him, only to realize that he is hallucinating and that the figure is in fact a waitress who is his real-life girlfriend. The novel was written as a way to deal with the horrors of his captivity, but Paul—who suffers psychological trauma from his experience—declines to write another book about his experience.
It was later recommended to director Andrew Scheinman, who later read the novel on an airplane and decided to make it into a film. The book is about a man named Paul Sheldon, who is held captive by a fan, Annie Wilkes, who claims to be his “number one fan” Paul writes a new novel titled Misery’s Return, in which he brings the character back to life. He agrees, on the condition that he must finish the novel in order to give Misery back to the world. When the manuscript is done, Paul asks for a cigarette and two glasses of champagne, to which Annie complies. When she returns with the champagne, he sets the manuscript on fire, he strikes her with the typewriter and they engage in a violent struggle, with Paul stuffing her mouth full of the burned novel in retaliation.
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