Misery (1990)

Dir. Rob Reiner’s vision of a different kind of terror from Stephen King is bursting with Hitchcockian style but never quite reaches the heights the fat man would’ve taken it. No matter, it has Kathy Bates to detract from that. She's simply amazing as an obsessed fan with an unpredictable on/off switch in her brain. At her mercy is a writer, whose imagination could be the only thing that saves him from her tough love.
Despite some major changes, including the addition of an entirely new character and subplot, William Goldman’s screenplay captures the essence of the novel admirably.

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