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Misery. Thriller. 104 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1990. Roger Ebert. November 30, 1990. 3 min read. Stephen King has a modest but undeniable genius for being able to find horror in everyday situations. My notion is that he starts with a germ of truth from his own life, and then takes it as far as he can into the macabre and the bizarre.
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NEW. After a serious car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), who claims to be his biggest fan. Annie brings him to her remote cabin to ...
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- Rob Reiner
- R
- James Caan
- The Sledgehammer
- The Meeting
- The Actual Character of Misery
- The Fire
- The Power of Writing
- The Sheriff
- Publishing The Book
- A Slightly Different Location
- Annie’s Demise
- The Horror
This is the big one. The masterful, gruesome, and horrifying set-piece the film is building up to the whole time is a moment most viewers have to turn away from. The crazed Annie Wilkes ends up so paranoid that she uses a sledgehammerto shatter Paul’s feet as he lays on the bed. The crunch of bone and agonized shriek of pain have remained haunting ...
The way in which Annie and Paul meet is also rather different between the two versions. At first, things are pretty similar: Annie saves him and takes care of him before we find out how much she loves his work. In the book, it becomes clear to Paul that Annie isn’t as caring and sane as he had first thought. In the film, it takes him far longer to ...
With a specific run time to meet and an audience to keep entertained and in the room, a film can very rarely push a three-hour time limit. Misery has to cut certain world-building elements in order to keep the audience on their side, while a book can basically be as long as necessary. RELATED: Every Stephen King Movie Ranked, From Worst To Best As ...
In her rage against the ending of Paul’s book, Annie takes the ultimate action against it. She forces him to burn the entire manuscript. Now, this isn’t a world in which Paul has a backup saved to the Cloud; this is a manuscript written out once and once only on a typewriter. Cleverly, the book version of the character only burns a stack of unrelat...
The way the film and book portray the concept of writingdiffers quite drastically. With all of its time spent depicting the claustrophobia of the room and Paul’s mental state, the book is able to portray the idea that Paul writes in order to keep himself relatively sane. It is sort of implied that without his continued writing, he wouldn’t have eve...
A key scene from the book shows one of the only characters to appear aside from Paul and Annie being brutally murdered. He is a state trooper on the hunt for Paul himself, and when she realizes he knows Paul is in the house, she stabs him and runs him over with a lawnmower in an incredibly graphic scene. The film version of this character is a sher...
As the book version of Paul didn’t actually burn his manuscript when Annie made him, he ended up getting out of the house will a completed book still in his possession. With his tormenter dead, he was able to publish the book in which Misery dies. It ends up being a global phenomenon and a best seller. RELATED: The 10 Most Bizarre Stephen King Film...
This particular difference doesn’t have much of an impact on the storyline at all, but it makes you wonder why it is there in the first place. While both the film and book are set in Colorado, the actual place in which the book is set is Sidewinder, a fictional town common to many stories in the King universe. The location in the film is a real pla...
While Annie does die in both the book and the film, the way she meets her end differs slightly in both. In the film, we see them fight until Annie cracks her head on the typewriter, and pretends to be dead. When she leaps back up, Paul is able to kill her with a pig statue. RELATED: Castle Rock: 10 Stephen King-Inspired Movies That Overlap With The...
While it isn’t a plot-specific difference, something overarching that separates the film from the book is its use of horror. Stephen King is typically known for his supernatural style and setting, but Misery is so much more real, making it just that bit scarier. The claustrophobia and tension of what might happen next keep it firmly on par with The...
Misery: Directed by Rob Reiner. With James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen. After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.
- (239K)
- Drama, Thriller
- Rob Reiner
- 1990-11-30
Misery is really a little masterpiece of drama and thriller.This story is simple: writer Pul Sheldon has a car accident and is helped by Annie Wilkes.This stay turns slowly into a kidnapping. The performances of Kathy Bates and James Caan are excellent. But we must also thank Rob Reiner for this very good dark story.
Zofia Wijaszka Nerdspin. Misery is an excellent adaption of the similarly exceptional novel. Bates’ role cannot possibly be forgotten, so cannot be Caan’s. The film remains a classic must ...
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Parents need to know that Misery is a 1990 movie based on a Stephen King novel about a novelist who, after a car accident, is rescued by his "#1 fan," a former nurse who is also a deranged killer. While not as bloody as a slasher horror movie, there are some violent moments, including the movie's best-known scene in which the novelist is tied to a bed and "hobbled" with a sledgehammer to both ...
