Adapted from a
Stephen King novel,
Rob Reiner's
Misery cast
James Caan as a writer at a career crossroads. The film opens with Paul Sheldon (
Caan)
completing work on his latest novel, a break from his popular series of
novels featuring the character Misery Chastain. He gets into a severe
car accident and is saved by Annie Wilkes (
Kathy Bates),
a reclusive woman who nurses him back to health. Annie is a huge fan of
the Misery novels, and she finishes reading the new one while Paul is
convalescing. She becomes enraged when she discovers that Paul has
killed off Misery. Annie injures Paul's foot severely so that he is
unable to leave her house, and forces him to write a new Misery novel. A
local sheriff (
Richard Farnsworth) and Paul's agent (
Lauren Bacall) both attempt to track down what happened to the missing author. Misery shot the relatively unknown
Kathy Bates to stardom, winning her one of the few Best Actress Oscars ever bestowed for portraying an evil character.
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