Taylor Hughes It is the middle of the night. Annie Wilkes has waited and waited for the latest installment of her favorite series. She goes to the bookstore to be sure she gets the first copy. She devours it as quickly as possible, curling up in the armchair we later glimpse in her bedroom, reading […]
Sezín Koehler The once innocuous phrase “I’m your number one fan” took a sharp turn toward the menacing after Kathy Bates uttered it in Rob Reiner’s 1990 adaptation of Stephen King’s Misery. Said by Annie Wilkes after rescuing her favorite romance novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan), who almost died in a snowstorm car accident, the […]
Avalon A. Manly There is a moment in the rising action of 1990’s Misery when protagonist Paul Sheldon (James Caan), trapped and tortured by “number-one fan” Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), breaks out of his room and finds, to his great relief, a phone on the living room table. It’s an old-fashioned rotary phone, with solid […]
Laura R. Kremmel Bestselling author Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is indeed fortunate to have been rescued from a near-fatal car accident off a remote Colorado road in the middle of a blizzard. He is even more fortunate that his rescuer is a nurse with years of experience and a home well equipped to care for […]
Cody Parish and Kristen Ann Leer Aside from its infamous “hobbling scene,” the most indelible moment of director Rob Reiner’s 1990 film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, Misery (1987), occurs when fictional writer Paul Sheldon “sees” his dead captor and obsessed fan Annie Wilkes again months after his escape from her remote mountain home.[i] While […]