Misery

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Actor: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Thomas Brunelle, Wendy Bowers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-08-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Movie Review: "One of The Best Movies Ever!"
Summary: 5 Stars

When people ask me what some of my favorite films are I always say "Misery" is near the top. Everything from the acting, writing, and the directing is superb. "Misery" is a perfect movie.
Based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, "Misery" is about a deranged woman keeping a man locked in her house against his will. Kathy Bates, who won the 1990 Oscar for Best Actress, came out of no where and made this film her own. A Broadway star with no film credits under her belt, Bates portrays one of the most disturbing and unbalanced women in the history of the cinema. Just when you think she is pleasant and kind she flips out, screaming and yelling obsenities. She plays more than just a bitch in this role; after watching her performance one observes how a person can snap and the problems of borderline personality disorder. James Caan is great as the helpless author Bates holds captive. The movie is interesting and exciting at the same time, and just when you think it can't get any better then Wham!, you are jolted out of your chair. This new DVD also comes with a wonderful documentary where Kathy Bates is interviewed and this is one of the reasons to own this Collector's Item. Rob Reiner did a fantastic job directing this thriller. Sit back and enjoy one of my top 10 favorite films of all-time. I have watched this film over and over and I never tire of it. If you also want to watch another good Kathy Bates film I would suggest "Dolores Clairborne", from another King novel.

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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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