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 Misery (DVD)
Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 1990 / Director: Rob Reiner / Actors: James Caan, Kathy Bates ... more  Misery (DVD) ... ... / DVD released 28 July, 2003 at MGM Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PAL, Special Edition / 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 ShannonNewest Review: ... William Goldman. World famous novel writer Paul Sheldon had just completed his latest novel and was travelling to his ... more ... holiday home when an accident occurs in a snow storm on route. Luck (or not) for him he is rescued by his number 1 fan Annie.
Mentally disturbed nurse Annie is a huge fan of the Misery series of novels Paul has written and takes her chance to get him to write a new novel re casting a maor character she likes who had been killed of in an earlier book.
Whether or not you enjoy the Stephen King novels you will enjoy this movie. Other of Kings's books to be made ito film have disappointed me but this is top notch. Gruesome in...more |
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Misery (DVD): THE MISERY OF ENTRAPMENT. (1253 words)
by PRINCESSPUSSYCAT - written on 28.03.08 (Very useful, 125 readings)
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- MISERY - Released in 1990, written by Stephen King and directed by Rob Rein. 'Misery' stars Kathy Bates and James Caan. - Genre Thriller/Horror, Running time 100 minutes and BBFC Rating: 18. - Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is a very successful writer. He has used the heroine called 'Misery' in most of his books, but he has now decided to 'kill her off' so to speak. As is his want, when he is preparing to write a new book, he takes off to the hills for some peace and quiet, a little bit of thinking time and some inspiration. The character Misery has been his 'money spinner' in quite a few of his novels so far, but he ...
You Dirty, Dirty Birdie... (1375 words)
by MattRoberts - written on 10.08.03 (Very useful, 422 readings)
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Stephen King’s novels have always seemed stupid to me. If any of you don’t know, I hate films that can’t happen in every day life. Take The Green Mile for instance. An awful film that left me feeling stupid. Stupid that I’d watched such a thing. But, Stephen King seems to have taken time out of writing shit novels, and done this one, excellent novel. I never read the book, but the film I did see. The film that left me startled, shocked, amazed, and pretty scared! Paul Sheldon – James Caan Annie Wilkes – Kathy Bates Buster – Richard Farnsworth Virginia – Frances Sternhagen Director ...
Misery (DVD): Gripping Stuff (606 words)
by HamishMacbeth - written on 01.08.01 (Very useful, 68 readings)
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Watching this movie will make you cringe in a few places but it will also make you laugh as well,I would personally class it more as a physcological thriller rather than a horror movie because there isn't really any blood and guts kind of stuff.I suppose it is in the horror category as it's based on a Stephen King book. Anyway read on and I will tell you more. Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy mountain road and is rescued by a strapping lass going by the name of Annie Wilkes.So what? I hear you asking,keep reading. He wakes up to find Annie has taken him home to her farm to nurse him, as the weather was so bad it was impossible to get to a ...
