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Misery
Making a dangerous accident on the road, Paul Sheldon, a famous novelist, whose life turns down, upon meeting Annie Wilkes, a former nurse and one of his biggest fans, who rescues him from death, but upon knowing that he kills off her favorite character in the novel, everything changes, as she seeks to revenge from him.
22 June 1955, Santa Monica, California, USA
25 August 1930, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
13 January 1930, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
6 March 1947, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
1 November 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 June 1948, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
11 September 1946, Sweet Home, Oregon, USA
August 12, 2013
It's Kathy Bates' Oscar-winning turn as a smiling psychopath that still provides the film's cold, cold heart and makes for one of cinema's greatest, friendliest, monsters.
June 24, 2006
Reiner captures just the right level of physical tension, but for the most part wisely emphasises the mental duels. Terrific.
September 25, 2007
Bates has a field day with her role, creating a quirky, memorable object of hate.
August 12, 2013
Misery should be a big hit. It deserves to be.
August 12, 2013
Caan and Bates capture the movie's roguish spirit perfectly.
October 14, 2014
Among other things, Misery emerges as a great picture of fan obsession, and of that curious mix of hero-worship and hero-bashing personified in supermarket tabloids and trash TV.
August 12, 2013
Like any good work of popular culture, Rob Reiner's film of Stephen King's best-selling book Misery functions on more than one level.
August 12, 2013
This all would have been perfect for a half-hour TV show or one of those horror anthology films. As it is, even the resourceful Reiner and Goldman are hard put to keep things going until the inevitable final clash.
October 14, 2008
Popular moviemaking -- elegantly economical, artlessly artful -- doesn't get much better than this.
September 25, 2007
A skillfully pared-down (if psychologically thin) horror thriller.
August 12, 2013
Bates turns Wilkes into the nastiest nurse to reach the screen since Louise Fletcher tormented Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
May 09, 2017
The film hasn't any depth to speak of, but is consistently shrewd enough not to go totally obvious ways. And the audacity in casting Kathy Bates as the dotty fan pays considerable dividends.