Misery (Blu-ray) R

Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now, he's writing to stay alive.
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: September 13, 2011
  • Originally Released: 1990
  • Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)

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Academy Awards 1990 - Best Actress: Kathy Bates

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User Ratings: 177,674
Rating: 3/4 -- 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. Full Review
Philadelphia Inquirer
Aug 12, 2013
Bates perfectly balances comedy and cruelty.
Premiere
Apr 1, 2004
4 stars out of 5 -- Confining most of the tortuous tension to just two people and one room, it's director Rob Reiner's darkest hour.
Total Film
Nov 1, 2012
Rating: 4/4 -- 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. Full Review
Tulsa World
Oct 14, 2014
...[Reiner] adopts Hitchcockian techniques which he uses to flawless effect...
Sight and Sound
May 1, 1991
...[Caan] is often marvelous...
Los Angeles Times
Nov 30, 1990
Bates and Caan simply dominate. MISERY builds economically to a climactic fight in which every scratch, ding, and wallop feels completely earned. -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Oct 5, 2007

Product Description:

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. The film features an excellent turn by Caan and an Oscar-winning performance by Bates.

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