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Summary: THE BEST STEPHEN KING ADAPTED MOVIE
Review: Kathy Bates plays an insane love story fan who unwitingly kidnaps her favorite author and holds him at her cabin in the middle of nowhere. When she finds out he's killin off her beloved story character, she goes iover the deep end, forcing him to write a novel just for her. After finding out about her disturbing history, she takes a large sledge hammer and whacks away!!!!! This is the best Stephen King movie!!!!!! BUY IT!!!!!!
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Summary: Bates and Caan ignite the screen!
Review: JAMES CAAN AND KATHY BATES ARE A PERFECT TEAM! A must-see for movie fans
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Summary: KATHY BATES IS AMAZING!!!
Review: Kathy Bates is awesome in all her movies, but this is her milestone. She was born to play Annie Wilkes! SEE THIS MOVIE. It is ONE of the best Stephen King's novel adaptations!
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Summary: must see movie
Review: It is an all around good movie. Awesome acting. Grate directin
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Summary: Miserable? I Think Not.
Review: Stephen King's chilling tale of an author trapped inside the house of his nurse who gives hellish care is now a movie, directed by Rob Reiner (A FEW GOOD MEN, STAND BY ME). Kathy Bates delivers a white-knucklingly scary performance as the psychotic, profanity-hating nurse. James Caan gives a performance as a man who is under excrutiating pain -- in fact, he is. Ankle baseball, anyone?
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Summary: A great movie
Review: This is a very good adaptation of Stephen King's novel. Kathy Bates gives a remarkable performance as a crazed fan. A must see for horror fans!
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Summary: It was so good! Very thrilling!
Review: My mom and I watched it together, and we were screaming! It was so mysterious and thrilling, and it had a great plot. I've never seen a movie like this one!!
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Summary: Suspensful Masterpiece!
Review: One of the best suspense movies I've seen. Stephen King's imagination + Kathy Bates + Caan = Misery: the best suspense can get. I recommend it for all suspense/horror lovers!
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Summary: "She can't be dead, MISERY CHASTAIN CANNOT BE DEAD!"
Review: By now pretty much everybody knows the rule that the best movies made from Stephen King novels do not put his name above the title and do not trumpet the fact in the trailer. This would be film's like "Stand By Me," "The Shawshank Redemption," "The Green Mile," and, of course, "Misery." Director Rob Reiner did the first and last films on that list, so he would know. The idea in this 1990 film is fairly simple and one that obviously would send shivers up and down King's own spine: what if an author became the captive of his "number one fan," who, needless to say, is a psychotic maniac? Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is a famous writer, who has been turning out historical bodice rippers about a heroine named Misery Chastain. As was the case with Arthur Conan Doyle, who killed off Sherlock Holmes at one point, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, who tried to kill off Tarzan's Jane, Sheldon has enough of his fictional creation and has killed her off in a book about to hit the stands. Meanwhile he has just finished a new novel about the slums in which he grew up that he hopes will establish his reputation as a serious writer. However, after he leaves the secluded Colorado Hotel where he goes to write his books his car crashes during a snowstorm and he is horribly hurt. But before he dies he is taken from his car and when he awakes he finds himself in a bed, both of his legs broken, and in the care of Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), a nurse who gleefully informs Paul that she is his "number one fan." Grateful to be alive and believing Annie's story that they are snowed in and that the phone lines are down because of the storm, Paul recuperates. He even lets Annie read his new manuscript, a privilege reserved for his editor, agent, and anybody who saves his life. But Annie does not like Paul's new novel and when she discovers he has killed off Misery she goes off the deep end. It becomes clear to Paul that if he has any hope of getting out of there alive, he is going to have to bow to dictates of his "number one fan" and bring Misery Chastain back from the grave. Meanwhile, Paul's agent (Lauren Bacall) has called up the local sheriff (Richard Farnsworth) and alerted him to the fact that the writer, on his way to New York with a new manuscript, has disappeared. With the help of his plucky wife (Frances Sternhagen), the sheriff starts to search for Paul, who is trying to find some way of getting away from Annie, even in his hobbled condition. Unfortunately, the more he learns about Annie, the less he likes his prospects and the more desperate his condition becomes. The original novel had a great irony in that under Annie's stern editorial guidance Paul is rather mortified to find the new Misery novel he is writing is the best thing he has ever done. But with William Goldman's script the novel he is writing is but a small part of the game of cat and mouse between Annie and Paul. Once it becomes clear Annie is insane Paul faces the daunting task of keeping on the slippery slope of her good side. Besides, Goldman knows that the whole bit that King did in the novel with Paul's typewriter, which keeps losing keys as his work goes along, would not translate to the film, so he did not even try. This film represented the second time King created a female character who would be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, the difference being that Kathy Bates won for "Misery" whereas Sissy Spacek did not for "Carrie." While Caan turns in a solid performance as a character bound to a bed or wheelchair for most of the film, ultimately it is Bates who makes this film work with the way that she goes from sweet to sour on the drop of a pin. Annie's is a many faceted lunacy and part of the terror is that Paul never knows which one will come walking through the door or back out of it again. "Misery" struck me as being a flip on "The Exorcist" in that instead of being afraid of what we would find when we walked through the door, this time we were afraid of what was going to open the door and walk through. "Misery" is a relatively simple and rather intimate horror film. This time King's monster is a human being and that makes Annie Wilkes one of the scariest, especially as she is played by Bates. When you think of all the fine cinematic performances Bates has turned in since then, especially in "Dolores Claiborne" and "Primary Colors," you have to be glad that Bette Midler turned down the role of Annie when it was offered to her.
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: The scary thing about Steven King's novels is that they're not that ridiculous. This one in particular, could very well happen. Just remember the penguin always looks south.
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