Adapting Stephen King’s Misery: A Number One Fan Look Back At The Brilliant 1990 Movie

Kathy Bates is so phenomenal that she became one of the few actors to ever win an Academy Award starring in a horror movie, and it is a flawless and terrifying performance – her cheery, manic state during the hobbling sequence generating one of the most remarkable and stunning moments in cinema history. Not to be totally overshadowed, however, is the incredible turn by James Caan. The Godfather star was ridiculously far down the casting wish list for the film, as Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, William Hurt, Harrison Ford, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Kline, and Richard Dreyfus were all first offered the part first and said no, but the tension and drama that Caan is able to wrought in what is a terrifically confined performance is brilliant.

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