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Misery

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Kathy Bates plays a deranged nurse in Misery

 

Misery (1990)
"Misery" is the perfect title for this nerve-wracking thriller about a famous novelist who suffers severe injuries in a car crash, and then more pain at the hands of his rescuer. Based on a bestseller by horror master Stephen King, "Misery" stars Kathy Bates in an Oscar-winning performance as nutty nurse Annie Wilkes, who can't believe her luck when the man she saves turns out to be her favorite author who just finished a manuscript. As he recovers at her house, his self-proclaimed "number one fan" complains that she isn't happy with his latest work, and lets him know it in a variety of painful ways.
In Misery, a popular author is rescued from a car crash by a woman who turns out to be an insane fan


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