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Misery DVD

R (Restricted) :: MGM (Video & DVD) :: Released: 2000-08-01

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Misery Summary A "heart-stopping Psychological Thriller" (joel Siegel) This Academy AwardÂ(r)-winning* Film Is "one Of The Best Horror Movies" (time) Ever. Adapted From A Stephen King Story By OscarÂ(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

Misery DVD Techincal Details Cast: James Caan, Wendy Bowers, Thomas Brunelle, Lauren Bacall
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Rated: R (Restricted)
Running Time: 107 mins
UPC: 027616851390
Binding: DVD
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: 2000-08-01
Region Code: 1
Specs: Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown - Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround),