A "heart-stopping psychological thriller" (Joel Siegel), this Academy Award-winning film is "one of the best horror movies" (Time) ever. Adapted from a Stephen King novel by Oscar-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 Cann (The Godfather) is "a Hitchcockian kind of cat-and-mouse" (The New York Times) game played between two cunning minds -- one as … mehrsharp as a tack and the other as blunt as a sledgehammer.
Novelist Paul Sheldon (Cann) 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 is waking 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! weniger
1990 kam Misery in die Kinos. Ein Film, basierend auf dem genialen Buch von Horror-Meister Stephen King. Dieser hatte Gefallen an den Verfilmungen seiner Bücher gewonnen und hatte mit Rage Carrie, Christine, The Shining oder Stand by me auch schon richtig gute und erfolgreiche Filme hinter sich. Als Misery auf den Buchmarkt kam, war es nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis auch dieser Roman im Kino ... weiterlesen