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Eve of Destruction (1991)
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This Christmas there will be... Misery.

The Tide Has Come.

Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now, he's writing to stay alive

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

Misery is a 1990 American psychological horror film based on Stephen King's 1987 novel and starring James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Richard Farnsworth, and Frances Sternhagen. Directed by Rob Reiner, the film received critical acclaim for Bates's performance as the psychopathic Annie Wilkes, and Bates won the 1990 Academy Award for Best Actress for her role,[2] making Misery, as of 2014, the only Stephen King adaptation to be an Oscar winning film.[3] The film was ranked #12 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.[4] The film was remade in India as a Malayalam & Tamil film titled Julie Ganapathi

Misery received almost universally positive reviews; on the critic website Rotten Tomatoes, the film currently holds an 88% rating; the consensus reads, "Elevated by standout performances from James Caan and Kathy Bates, this taut and frightening film is one of the best Stephen King adaptations to date."[13]
Roger Ebert liked the film, stating, "It is a good story, a natural, and it grabs us."[14]
The genre magazine Bloody Disgusting ranked Misery fourth place in its list of "10 Claustrophobic Horror Films".[15]
King himself has stated that Misery is one of his top ten favourite film adaptations, in his collection "Stephen King Goes to the Movies".[16]
Misery grossed $10,076,834 on its opening weekend, finishing at second at the box office behind Home Alone.[17] It eventually finished with $61 million domestically

Release Date: November 30, 1990

Distrib: Columbia Pictures


Boxoffice: $61,276,872 2014: $121,217,500