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Misery

film by Reiner [1990]

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discussed in biography

In Rob Reiner: Success as a film director
…turned to darker material with Misery (1990), an adaptation of a King novel that starred Kathy Bates as a woman who imprisons a writer (James Caan) whose work she adores. Bates’s frenzied but humane turn as the crazed Annie Wilkes earned her an Academy Award for best actress. The courtroom…
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novel by King

In Stephen King
…2017 and 2019); Misery (1987; film 1990); The Tommyknockers (1987; TV miniseries 1993); The Dark Half (1989; film 1993); Needful Things (1991; film 1993); Dolores Claiborne (1993; film 1995); Dreamcatcher (2001; film 2003); Cell (2006);
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Oscar to Bates for best actress, 1990

role of Bates

In Kathy Bates: Films
…film adaptation of Stephen King’s Misery. She played Annie Wilkes, a psychotic fan who rescues a best-selling novelist (played by James Caan) after a car accident but turns on him when she finds that he has killed her favourite character in his latest novel. In addition to an Academy Award,…
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