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Misery
Upon saving his life by one of his biggest fan and a former nurse Annie Wilkes, Paul Sheldon, a well-known novelist, who through his way, makes a dangerous accident, the thing that makes his life in danger, till meeting Annie to receive abuse, as after knowing that he has killed off her favorite character in the novel, decides to revenge.
22 June 1955, Santa Monica, California, USA
28 September 1943, San Francisco, California, USA
16 September 1924, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
26 March 1940, The Bronx, New York, USA
1 September 1920, Los Angeles, California, 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.
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.
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.
October 14, 2008
Popular moviemaking -- elegantly economical, artlessly artful -- doesn't get much better than this.
August 12, 2013
Caan and Bates capture the movie's roguish spirit perfectly.
June 24, 2006
Reiner captures just the right level of physical tension, but for the most part wisely emphasises the mental duels. Terrific.
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.
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.
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.
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.
