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Release Date
• USA: Nov 30, 1990
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 1, 2000
• R2: 28 Jul 2003
Budget $20,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 47 minutes
Country USA
Studio Castle Rock Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Nelson Entertainment
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Other Titles
• Misery (1990)
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Genre: Thriller, Drama, Horror, Suspense, Kidnapping, Psychos, Hostage, Black Comedy, Psychodrama, Investigation, Revenge
Tagline: Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now, he's writing to stay alive.
Plot: Romance author Paul Sheldon (James Caan) longs for parting with Misery. Sheldon’s plucky heroine of seven novels has delivered Sheldon fame and fortune and recognition beyond the average writer’s dreams, but she is also interminably linked to him. Determined to escape an eternal role as dimestore novelist, he kills her off in the eighth novel and heads to his New England cabin to work on his own Great American Novel. Upon completion, Sheldon excitedly sets out for his New York City publisher in the midst of a raging blizzard and within minutes veers into a desolate snowbank. From the brink of death, he is rescued from the snow by Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), who just so happens to be Misery’s self-professed biggest fan. At first, she nurses him back to health in her remote cabin, telling him the roads and phones are knocked out by the storm, fawning over his literary accomplishments. However, things change when she purchases his eighth Misery book and reaches the point of Misery's death. Annie’s psychotic underbelly swiftly surfaces as the unfortunate author is held clandestinely captive in her home. Meanwhile, a wily small-town sheriff (Richard Farnsworth) circles in....Director Rob Reiner's adaptation of Stephen King's novel is an eerie tale of obsessiveness and isolation.
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 This adaptation of the Stephen King novel works more on the building of suspense than having lots of bloodshed and it works making this an expertly made, well acted, tense and well written time.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
As a statement about fanatical behavior in relation to celebrities, Misery is in the ballpark, but it doesn't hit a home run. As a story, it's mediocre. As an idea, it's certainly intriguing. But as a movie?  --Jack Witzig (ColdSpot)
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Rob Reiner
The Princess Bride, Stand by Me, A Few Good Men |
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| Written by |
Stephen King
The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Shining |
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The Princess Bride, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dreamcatcher |
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Marc Shaiman
Team America: World Police, A Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally... |
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| Even with a great director, a return to the big-screen by Caan and an Oscar-winning performance by Bates, this movie doesn't even come close to capturing the raw suspense of the novel. -- (eSplatter.com)
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