![]() Were joining a Special Ops team to nail the Wizard, a major terrorist thorn in the militarys side. Its not our usual take them out and run its an undercover mission that needs the whole gang: a psychic, an interpreter, and a weapons specialist. 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. Im Lucille Robinson (aka Jaz Parks).This is a mission unlike anything my vampire boss, Vayl, and I have ever been on. 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. 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. ![]() 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. Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 10-2-22 Escape Reality, Read Fiction on Review: Travel by Bullet by John Scalzi Sunday Post. I was planning to read the new Stephen King book, but with a child’s. 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. My favorite scary books are The Heart-Shaped Box, It, and The Shining. 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. From a brilliant adaptation by screenwriter William Goldman, Reiner turned Kings cautionary tale of fame and idolatry into a mainstream masterpiece of escalating suspense, translating Kings own experience with obsessive fans into a frightening tale of entrapment and psychotic behavior. ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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