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Paul's car is a 1966 Ford Mustang.	D
According to William Goldman's book "Four Screenplays," the role of Paul Sheldon was offered to Warr [...]	D
Rob Reiner: The helicopter pilot.	D
Screenwriter William Goldman first suggested Kathy Bates to Reiner for the Annie Wilkes role. "She w [...]	D
Frances Sternhagen, who played the Sheriff's wife, was the voice talent for Dolores Claiborne on the [...]	D
James Caan said that, after doing this movie, he has heard maybe one hundred thousand times, "How ar [...]	D
Jessica Lange and Barbra Streisand were up for the role of Annie Wilkes.	D
In the original idea for the novel, Annie planned to kill Paul Sheldon by feeding him to Misery the [...]	D
The black and white photo sitting by the 'bunk' phone in Annie's living room is actually an old phot [...]	D
Mary Tyler Moore wanted the role of Annie Wilkes.	D
In the novel, Annie cuts off Paul's foot to prevent him from escaping. Screenwriter William Goldman [...]	D
Jack Nicholson was offered the role of Paul Sheldon, but passed because he was not sure he wanted to [...]	D
Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) is also a Liberace fan. The soundtrack features Liberace performing Tchai [...]	D
Blizzards are a driving factor in "Misery", "Dreamcatcher", and "The Shining", all Stephen King nove [...]	D
They spent time crafting Wilkes as a "specifically sick person, not an all-purpose monster."	D
The filmmakers originally considered Bette Midler for Annie, but Rob Reiner felt it was better to ca [...]	D
The empty phone is the closest element to a "cheat" in the film as there's no real reason why Annie [...]	D
After seeing the notorious scene where his character gets his ankles broken at a screening, James Ca [...]	D
King has Paul pretend to burn Misery's Return at the end and then go on to see it published, but the [...]	D
Anjelica Huston was offered the role of Annie Wilkes, and was interested, but was unable to accept i [...]	D
Warren Beatty was involved briefly while they were developing the script and helped them close some [...]	D
Originally released via Castle Rock Entertainment's production and distribution arrangements with Co [...]	D
The title of Paul's next novel is "The Higher Education of J. Philip Stone," a possible reference to [...]	D
James Caan accepted the lead role after Jack Nicholson turned it down. Caan had previously turned do [...]	D
According to director Rob Reiner, Annie Wilkes' (Kathy Bates') killing spree is loosely based on tha [...]	D
This was the first feature produced by Rob Reiner's company, Castle Rock Entertainment, named for th [...]	D
Stephen King had originally planned to release the novel under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman. While [...]	D
Annie (Kathy Bates) places a wooden block between Paul's (James Caan) ankles and uses a sledgehammer [...]	D
The day after Kathy Bates won the Oscar for her role in Misery non deve morire (1990), she filmed a [...]	D
(At 21 mins.) The POV approach towards and past Buster on the side of the road, which then turns to [...]	D
They spent weeks getting Paul Sheldon's briefcase to look "just right" in regard to the faded and wo [...]	D
The weapons used by the villains in The Shining and Misery have been swapped. In the book The Shinin [...]	D
In the movie, Annie forces Paul to burn his manuscript, which is "untitled" (as seen in the close-up [...]	D
Rob Reiner studied Alfred Hitchcock movies to figure out how to shoot a thriller, watching every Hit [...]	D
Annie Wilkes is Stephen King's favorite written character, because she was always surprising to writ [...]	D
When Annie demands that Paul burn his manuscript, she lights the paper and we see a close-up of the [...]	D
William Goldman who wrote the script said that the studio approached every man in Hollywood to play [...]	D
They wanted to make Buster "more proactive" than he is in the novel, and to that end they gave him m [...]	D
At one point, Carol Burnett was considered for the role of the agent, and Vicki Lawrence was conside [...]	D
Tim Allen and Robin Williams were both considered for the role of Paul Sheldon.	D
Rob Reiner picked up on Kathy Bates getting more and more isolated as the shooting progressed, and t [...]	D
Reiner loved the speech Annie gives, because "it's so wacky and nutty."	D
(At 59 mins.) The shot through the bed rails that transitions into a shot through trees is meant as [...]	D
The film cast includes one Oscar winner, Kathy Bates; and four Oscar nominees, James Caan, Richard F [...]	D
Kathy Bates was reportedly disappointed that a scene was cut in which she kills a young police offic [...]	D
James Caan was not director Rob Reiner's first choice for the film. He was turned down by Robert Red [...]	D
The car accident scene was captured with a setup involving nine cameras, "six or seven" of which act [...]	D
Dustin Hoffman turned down the role of Paul Sheldon, due to his dislike of violent films.	D
The film downplays one of the key themes in the book: Paul's addictions and substance abuse and how [...]	D
The theme music in one of the trailers for this film is actually a piece of James Horner's score fro [...]	D
Paul preferred to write on white, long-grained mimeo paper. Paper cut long-grained resists curling, [...]	D
A dress worn by Kathy Bates in her role as Annie Wilkes is on display at Planet Hollywood in Myrtle [...]	D
After seeing Shining (1980), Rob Reiner was immediately inspired to make a movie based on a Stephen [...]	D
When Kathy Bates picked up her Oscar and made her speech, one thing she said humorously was, "I woul [...]	D
The typewriter that Annie buys for Paul to use is a Royal Model 10 typewriter. The Royal 10 was one [...]	D
Season 2 of Castle Rock on Hulu serves as a prequel to Misery and Annie Wilkes' story.	D
A photograph of a younger Paul Sheldon shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth II can be seen above Annie [...]	D
Bette Midler turned down the role of Annie Wilkes, because she thought it was too violent. She later [...]	D
In the book Annie not only chops off Paul's left foot as retaliation for him having moved around the [...]	D
(At 50 mins) The signed photo is actually Reiner's handwriting.	D
James Caan and Kathy Bates clashed over their acting methods. Caan believed in as little rehearsal a [...]	D
George Roy Hill was at one point considered to direct.	D
James Caan claimed in an interview on the DVD that he did not read the book in preparation for filmi [...]	D
Kathy Bates's Best Actress Oscar win was this film's only Oscar nomination.	D
A video of Harry, ti presento Sally... (1989) (also directed by Rob Reiner) is visible in the genera [...]	D
William Goldman adapted his script for the stage for a limited run on Broadway during the 2015-2016 [...]	D
Bette Midler turned down the role of Annie Wilkes in this movie in order to co-star with Woody Allen [...]	D
Sheriff Buster's car is a 1972 Chevrolet Blazer [K-5].	D
After filming wrapped, Richard Farnsworth gave Reiner the hat he wears in his introduction scene as [...]	D
Bates was stage-trained and preferred extensive rehearsals while Caan was more "instinctive and natu [...]	D
James Caan's fake legs were molded out of gelatin. Armatures with wire were inserted into the prosth [...]	D
For the scene where James Caan had to crawl out of bed, director of photography Barry Sonnenfeld spi [...]	D
First of three screenplay adaptions by William Goldman, based on novels by Stephen King. Goldman als [...]	D
Stephen King was quite impressed with Kathy Bates' performance in this film, so much so that he late [...]	D
It was William Goldman who picked the then-unknown Kathy Bates for Annie Wilkes. She would go on the [...]	D
J.T. Walsh: State of Colorado Police Chief.	D
During the course of the film, Annie says "Oh Paul" 12 times.	D
In the novel, Annie cuts off one of Paul's feet. William Goldman thought this was too graphic for th [...]	D
James Caan had to stay in bed for fifteen weeks of shooting. Caan said he thought that Rob Reiner wa [...]	D
Bill Murray was considered to play Paul Sheldon.	D
Cast and crew were excited for the scene where Paul picks the bedroom door lock and rolls himself ou [...]	D
In 1991, Kathy Bates became the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress in a horror or thriller [...]	D
Annie displays traits associated with an array of mental illnesses (at the very least, bipolar disor [...]	D
James Caan and Richard Farnsworth previously appeared in Arriva un cavaliere libero e selvaggio (197 [...]	D
After refusing to speak about his motivations for writing "Misery" for two decades, Stephen King fin [...]	D
Annie Wilkes was ranked the seventeenth most iconic villain in the American Film Institutes list of [...]	D
When Paul's car is found, he is assumed to be dead, in a subplot original to the film. Coincidentall [...]	D
At one screening, Stephen King was enjoying himself so much that he yelled, "Watch out! She's got a [...]	D
According to writer William Goldman, Richard Dreyfuss almost accepted the Paul Sheldon part because [...]	D
Stephen King was initially reluctant to sell the film rights to "Misery" because he was skeptical th [...]	D
The character played by Frances Sternhagen was created entirely for the film, and was not in the nov [...]	D
Paul Sheldon's (James Caan's) novels are published by Viking, the same publishing company that publi [...]	D
James Caan once showed up to the set hungover, and all of the scenes he shot that day were unusable. [...]	D
According to urban legend, the sledgehammer used in the famous hobbling scene was provided by Pontef [...]	D
One of Stephen King's first typewriters had a malfunctioning "N" key, just like the one used by Paul [...]	D
"Misery" was almost turned into a Broadway play, with Julia Roberts as Annie Wilkes. King vetoed the [...]	D
Annie was always intended in the novel to be an amalgam of Stephen King's scariest fans.	D
The novel has Annie chop off Paul's foot and cauterize the stump, but they opted to simply hobble hi [...]	D
Reiner thinks the film was one of the earliest examples of the audience thinking the villain is dead [...]	D
Towards the end of the movie, it's finally established just how long Paul has been there. Perhaps su [...]	D
Annie's jeep is a 1974 Jeep Cherokee S [SJ].	D
Radici (1977) is one of the videos on sale in the Silver Creek General Store. The miniseries' most f [...]	D
In a recent interview with Melvyn Bragg, William Goldman revealed that few actors wanted the role of [...]	D
The same article repeats twice in the article about the baby killings	D
In the movie, during the scrapbook scene, pause whenever any of the news articles are visible. Most [...]	D
Roseanne Barr and Rosie O'Donnell were considered to play Annie Wilkes. Roseanne did play her in an [...]	D
Kathy Bates ended up getting upset over the violence. James Caan recalled that his co-star was cryin [...]	D
Used to giving her characters rich backgrounds to help her find her voice, Kathy Bates and Rob Reine [...]	D
Rob Reiner was questioned before heading into production if this was really the right project for hi [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Most [...]	D
Annie's revolver is a Colt Cobra "D" Frame .38 revolver.	D
Jeff Daniels, Ed Harris, John Heard, Robert Klein, and Ed O'Neill were considered for the role of Pa [...]	D

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