Misery

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Actor: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Thomas Brunelle, Wendy Bowers
Primary Contributor: Kathy Bates
Primary Contributor: James Caan
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 104 minutes
Release Date: 2000-08-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

VHS Movie Reviews of Misery

Movie Review: Good Christian Woman
Summary: 5 Stars

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"

Movie Review: I love this movie...very good!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

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!!

Movie Review: fantastically scary!
Summary: 5 Stars

I saw this movie on TV one night. It had already started, about halfway in, maybe less. I decided to watch a little bit of it, then go to bed. I ended up watching the entire thing and staying awake thinking about it for an hour! I understood the story line and what was happening real quick and found the film (in every aspect) wonderful. The part that really got me was when Annie noticed paul had been getting out of his room, and to keep him from escaping put a block of wood between his ankles and broke his feet with a sledge hammer! It looked so real, and was somehow even grosser than seeing someone get eaten by zombies or ripped up by a predator or alien or dinosaur of whatever. anyway, check out the other reviews, find out what it's all about and, if you think you can manage, watch the movie!

Movie Review: Misery
Summary: 5 Stars

Kathy Bates was excellent in Misery as was James Caan. Kept you on the edge of your seat as to the outcome.

Movie Review: Misery
Summary: 5 Stars

If you like Kathy Bates movies, this is one of the good ones that she was in. I seen Misery when it was on VCR tape and when I find it on DVD I bought it.

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Summary of Misery

A "heart-stopping psychological thriller" (Joel Siegel) this Academy Award(r)-winning* film is "one of the best horror movies" (Time) ever. Adapted from a Stephen King story by Oscar(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

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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