Revealing mistake: During the big fight scene, just as Annie Wilkes falls to the floor and hits her head on the typewriter, the actress is replaced by a really bad looking Kathy Bates dummy!
Misery (1990)
1 review since 17 Dec '25, 23:16
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Starring: Kathy Bates, James Caan, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen
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9.5/10. My favorite Rob Reiner movie. It's a masterpiece of horror with Kathy Bates giving an excellent Oscar winning performance with James Caan in his best movie since The Godfather. It's chilling, creepy, and scary as all get out. Bates is great here, her Oscar win was well deserved. Just a masterpiece in the horror genre.
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Annie Wilkes: Now the time has come. I put two bullets in my gun. One for me, and one for you. Oh darling, it will be so beautiful.
Trivia: In the book Annie kills the young cop with her lawnmower. It was left out of the movie because the director didn't want the audience to hate the actress Kathy Bates, which is also why he had her use a sledgehammer instead of cutting off his feet.
Answer: Simple answer, she was a psychopathic killer. She was a nurse, and infants were accessible, helpless victims.
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