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Wendy Bowers Waitress as Waitress. Misery the Pig Self as Self. Rob Reiner. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit.

Best-selling novelist Paul Sheldon is on his way home from his Colorado hideaway after completing his latest book, when he crashes his car in a freak blizzard. Paul is critically injured, but is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, Paul's "number one fan", who takes Paul back to her remote house in the mountains without bothering to tell anybody.

Unfortunately for Paul, Annie is also a headcase. When she discovers that Paul has killed off the heroine in her favorite novels, her reaction leaves Paul shattered literally This Christmas there will be Did you know Edit. Trivia James Caan once showed up to the set hungover, and all of the scenes he shot that day were unusable. Rob Reiner told Caan he had to do the scenes again because there was "a problem at the lab. Goofs When Buster reads one of the "Dragon Lady" articles in the library, under the picture it says, " There is a higher justice than that of man, I will be judged by Him.

There is a justice higher than that of man, I will be judged by Him. Quotes Paul Sheldon : You want it? Crazy credits Misery the Pig - Herself.

Soundtracks Shotgun Performed by Jr. User reviews Review. Top review. One of the best thrillers of the 90's. Misery is without a doubt one of the finest movies of the 90's and one of the best movies in the thriller genre. It is an ingeniously crafted horror masterpiece that seamlessly intertwines its incredibly tense and cleverly paced story with inventive cinematography, tight editing and exquisite performances.

In my opinion Misery is one of the better adaptations of Stephen King's works and truly a movie that cannot be missed, especially for the genre fans. Paul Sheldon James Caan is the author of a successful series of romance novels about a character called Misery, who decides to take a more serious approach regarding his future novels.

Due to the extreme weather conditions, he has an accident that leaves him severely injured and hopeless. A local nurse named Annie Wilkes Kathy Bates finds Paul and brings him to her remote home in order to help him recover. By the time Paul regains consciousness, he is already in the guest room of Annie's secluded farmhouse. Both of Paul's legs are broken in several places, so he is bedridden and incapacitated and and hooked on Novril, an addictive, morphine-based drug that Annie has a large supply of.

Annie claims she is his 'number one fan' and talks a lot about him and his novels. She is happy when Paul lets her read his new novel, but later admits she disliked the excessive swearing, despite the fact that the book is written from the point of view of a street kid who grew up impoverished in a big city. While feeding him, the discussion of the profanity angers her and she spills soup on his bed and, in an unexpected fury, throws the bowl at the wall where it shatters.

Annie apologizes and then spends an entire hour slowly and methodically cleaning up the mess she claims Paul caused. By the time she finishes, Paul, who was supposed to have his next dose of Novril after eating, is in agony.

She brings him his Novril capsules and forces him to wash them down with the water in the bucket she'd used to rinse the wall with. She buys a copy of Paul's latest book, Misery's Child , but after learning that he has "murdered" Misery, Annie flies into a rage, almost smashing a table on Paul's head.

She reveals that nobody knows where he is contradicting what she had earlier told him about the roads to town being impassable because of the blizzard. Annie leaves and Paul considers escaping from his room, but she has locked the door and the thought of the pain he'd endure if he tried to get out of bed stops him -- Paul would have to drop to the floor, risking incredible pain and further injury.

Trapped in bed, Paul is left starving, wracked with pain and dehydrated, forcing him to drink his own urine. When Annie returns 51 hours later, she genially apologizes for mistreating him but tells him she can't give him food or his medication until he performs a single task. Annie forces Sheldon to burn the Fast Cars manuscript. Paul holds out for several more hours but finally cracks, needing his medication to end his agony.

Unfortunately, Sheldon had never made copies of the manuscript, believing that making copies is a jinx, so Fast Cars is lost forever. Paul vows to kill her. Annie comes up with a new plan: she wants him to write a sequel to Misery's Child , where Misery is brought back to life.

She supplies him with a used Royal typewriter, which is missing the "N" key. Paul turns over a first chapter to Annie, who, while writing in the missing N's, immediately rejects it, saying that the manner with which Paul had resurrected Misery was cheating. She likens his method to Saturday serial matinees where her hero, Rocket Man, had repeatedly escaped death. One installment left Annie herself very upset because the story contained a small flaw: the car that the hero was trapped in exploded after falling from a cliff, before her hero could escape.

The resolution the following week had shown the hero escaping the car before it had gone over the cliff, leaving Annie obsessively upset. Annie tells Paul he'll have to go back to the drawing board and do better. Upon presenting Paul with the typewriter, Paul suggests that Annie supply him with different paper. The brand she'd chosen, Corrasable Bond, though one of the most expensive papers available, allows ink to smudge too easily.

Stating that he'll need to shift the pages around during his writing, in a few years Annie will have nothing of the manuscript but smeared or blank pages. He asks her to get him less expensive long-grain mimeo. She agrees to get him the paper but in a fury, she pounds his shattered left knee with her fist, causing Paul tremendous pain. She stomps out. You can easily create a free account.

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