1990 · king-adaptation · psychological · thriller
Misery
Directed by Rob Reiner1h 47m1990
After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.
Our read: Misery (1990) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded king-adaptation · psychological · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme king-adaptation / psychological, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
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