To Goldman’s delight, the novelist sat as enraptured as the average audience member. King was in attendance, Goldman wrote, so the screenwriter was expectedly nervous about his reaction. The film features an excellent turn by Caan and an Oscar-winning performance by Bates.In his 2000 memoir Which Lie Did I Tell?, screenwriter/playwright William Goldman discusses the very first screening of “Misery,” his adaptation of Stephen King’s acclaimed 1987 novel. Director Rob Reiner's adaptation of Stephen King's novel is an eerie tale of obsessiveness and isolation. Meanwhile, a wily small-town sheriff (Richard Farnsworth) circles in. Annie's psychotic underbelly swiftly surfaces as the unfortunate author is held clandestinely captive in her home. However, things change when she purchases his eighth Misery book and reaches the point of Misery's death.
At first, she nurses him back to health in her remote cabin, telling him the roads and phones are knocked out by the storm, fawning over his literary accomplishments. From the brink of death, he is rescued from the snow by Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), who just so happens to be Misery's self-professed biggest fan. Upon completion, Sheldon excitedly sets out for his New York City publisher in the midst of a raging blizzard and within minutes veers into a desolate snowbank. Determined to escape an eternal role as dimestore novelist, he kills her off in the eighth novel and heads to his New England cabin to work on his own Great American Novel. Sheldon's plucky heroine of seven novels has delivered Sheldon fame and fortune and recognition beyond the average writer's dreams, but she is also interminably linked to him. Romance author Paul Sheldon (James Caan) longs for parting with Misery.
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