He’ll just have to be her guest until things get cleared up. Paul comes to a couple days later and asks to get in touch with the outside world, however, according to Annie all phone lines are down and the roads are blocked. The resulting film captivated (pun intended?) and horrified audiences twenty-seven years ago and, even with the passage of time, proves it can still induce crippling anxiety in newcomers and repeat viewers alike. Screenwriter William Goldman and Reiner turned King’s visceral story into a lean screenplay, emphasizing the cat-and-mouse interplay between Bates and co-star James Caan. Firmly anchored by an Academy Award-winning performance from Kathy Bates, Misery is a lengthy exercise in tension that builds and builds until arriving at an explosive climax that gives viewers the catharsis they have waited 100 minutes to receive. There seems no better time to revisit the upper echelon of his filmed material, and director Rob Reiner’s Misery (1990) is unquestionably one of the greats. With so many Stephen King adaptations being produced nearly every year, who could have guessed that 2017 would be a renaissance for fans of the legendary author’s work on both the big and small screen? Not only is there a glut of King media available to audiences, but much of it is – gasp – quite good. Starring Kathy Bates, James Caan, Richard Farnsworth
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