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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $16.99 You Save: $2.99 Features • AC-3 • Collector's Edition • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 30 November, 1990 DVD Release : 02 October, 2007 |
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Misery (Collector's Edition) description 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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| "Misery" opens with author Paul Sheldon (James Caan)suffering from writer's block. He tells his agent,the ever-stylish Lauren Bacall,that he's going to take a breather in Colorado. In a freak accident, Sheldon's car ends up in a ditch... and he finds himself being "nursed" by Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) Annie introduces herself worshipfully,saying,"I'm your number #1 fan!" Wilkes begins as sympathetic&kind,but also creepily idolizing Sheldon. He finds himself in the same situation as Scheherazade in the Thousand&One Nights,he must tell the story of Misery Chastain to stay alive. There is paranoia&growing horror. One sympathizes with Sheldon's captivity&his longing for freedom. Wilkes goes from devoted,doting fan to horrifically obsessive. In the meantime, the town sheriff,Buster (Richard Farnsworth) goes to search for Sheldon,using his cheesy romance novels about Misery to solve the mystery.
In the classic,"Sunset Boulevard",faded diva Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) embodied the dark side of celebrity. In "Misery",Wilkes embodies the dark side of fandom. She seems cheesily all-American with her love of Liberace (complete with shrine) and her Spam meatloaf. She is a fundamentalist who thinks God called her to "save" Sheldon&Misery Chastain. At the same time, her obsession is deadly. "Misery" is suspenseful&well-crafted. There are plenty of twists&turns,such as when Sheldon finds Wilkes' "Memory Lane" scrapbook. The ending will keep you guessing. "Misery" hurts so good. |
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