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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792846444
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792846443
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 01, 2000
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 4094
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: November 30, 1990
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A 'heart-stopping psychological thriller' (Joel Siegel) this Academy AwardÂ(r)-winning* film is 'one of the best horror movies' (Time) ever. Adapted from a Stephen King story by OscarÂ(r)-winning** screenwriter William Goldman (All the President's Men) and directed by Rob Reiner (A Few Good Men), this chiller starring Kathy Bates (Titanic) and James Caan (The Godfather), is 'a Hitchcockian kind of cat-and-mouse' (The New York Times) gameplayed between two cunning mindsone as sharp as a tack and the other as blunt as a sledgehammer. Novelist Paul Sheldon (Caan) doesn't remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. Nor does he remember being nursed back from unconsciousness. All he remembers iswaking up in the home of Annie Wilkes (Bates)a maniacal fan who is bent on keeping her favorite writer as her personal prisoner for the rest of his 'cock-a-doodie' life! *1990: Actress (Bates) **1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; 1976: All the President's Men
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Based on the chilling bestseller by Stephen King, Misery was brought to the screen by director Rob Reiner as one of the most effective thrillers of the 1990s. From a brilliant adaptation by screenwriter William Goldman, Reiner turned King's cautionary tale of fame and idolatry into a mainstream masterpiece of escalating suspense, translating King's own experience with obsessive fans into a frightening tale of entrapment and psychotic behavior. Kathy Bates deservedly won an Academy Award for her performance as Annie Wilkes, an unbalanced devotee of romance novels written by Paul Sheldon (James Caan), whose books provide Annie with a much-needed escape from her pathetic life and her secret, violent past. After Annie rescues the injured Sheldon from a car accident, she seizes the opportunity to nurse her favorite writer back to health, but her tender loving care soon turns to terrorism as she demands that Sheldon write his latest novel according to her wish-fulfillment fantasies. From this point forward, Misery percolates to a boil as equal parts mystery, thriller, and cleverly dark comedy, with the helpless author pitched in deadly warfare against his number one fan. While Bates carefully modulates her role from doting kindness to sympathetic loneliness and finally to horrifying ferocity, Caan is equally superb as the celebrated author who must literally write for his life. It's essentially a two-actor film, but Richard Farnsworth and Lauren Bacall are excellent in supporting roles as they investigate the writer's mysterious disappearance. Frightening, funny, and totally irresistible, Misery was such a hit that some of Bates's dialogue entered the popular lexicon (particularly her nagging reference to Caan as 'Mister Man'), and its nail-biting thrills remain timelessly intense. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  - Great Movie
I purchased this movie for a Christmas present for my son. We have both enjoyed watching this DVD. Great discount given by Amazon.
Rating: - Intense to say the least
If ever a movie has made me feel as trapped as its protagonist does, Misery stands right up there. I must admit that I have never read King's novel on which this film was based, but it didn't stop the movie from chilling my bones. It was an effort just to sit through it; it's that intense. James Caan and especially Kathy Bates deliver truly spectacular performances as popular (and, to his grudge, commercialised) writer Paul Sheldon and his psychotic "number one fan" Annie Wilkes. The movie has a justified reputation as a two-actor film, as the twisted relationship the characters share is what makes the movie so memorable.
Bed-ridden after being saved from a car crash in the midst of a blizzard in the Rocky Mountains, Paul Sheldon finds himself under the care of Annie Wilkes, a seemingly-kind recluse who lives for his novels about female romance hero "Misery". Paul soon finds out that Annie's seemingly positive attitude is completely deceptive, as she is not at all intent on letting her hero escape her grasp, or kill off her favourite character of his. She forces him to revive Misery, with a novel written just for her. Paul has no choice to comply, but even so he soon learns that Annie is not so easy to please, or forgiving about it.
Bates deservedly won an Oscar for her portrayal as the unhinged Annie, who appears on the surface to be the epitome of kindness but is really a ticking time bomb that'll go off, messily, at the least effort. James Caan's performance is wonderful ... Read More
Rating:  - Misery
This is one of best movies made from a Stephen King book. Katy Bates is great (also is great in Deloris Clabourne)and so is James Caan. Where are all disappointed when a long running series is over, but this is taking it to a whole new level.
Rating: - Good Christian Woman
Excellent movie and another example that wearing a cross on your neck doesn't make you a good person...you can see that on Law & Order a lot, too many freaks out there whose faith clouded up their minds. I guess like they say - "Everything in moderation"
Rating: - I love this movie...very good!!!!
This movie is so incredible!! A great thriller!! This is definately Kathy Bates' best movie EVER!! James Caan is excellent in it as well. Must have movie!!
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