MISERY SIGNED SCRIPT BY STEPHEN KING & JAMES CAAN RP

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"MISERY " This is an auction for a color copy of the ENTIRE movie script from the movie. Signatures are from the following cast and crew: James Caan ... Paul Sheldon Kathy Bates ... Annie Wilkes Richard Farnsworth ... Buster William Goldman ... screenplay writer Stephen King ... novel writer SUMMARY Adapted from a Stephen King novel, Rob Reiner 's Misery cast James Caan as a writer at a career crossroads. The film opens with Paul Sheldon ( Caan ) completing work on his latest novel, a break from his popular series of novels featuring the character Misery Chastain. He gets into a severe car accident and is saved by Annie Wilkes ( Kathy Bates ), a reclusive woman who nurses him back to health. Annie is a huge fan of the Misery novels, and she finishes reading the new one while Paul is convalescing. She becomes enraged when she discovers that Paul has killed off Misery. Annie injures Paul's foot severely so that he is unable to leave her house, and forces him to write a new Misery novel. A local sheriff ( Richard Farnsworth ) and Paul's agent ( Lauren Bacall ) both attempt to track down what happened to the missing author. Misery shot the relatively unknown Kathy Bates to stardom, winning her one of the few Best Actress Oscars ever bestowed for portraying an evil character. Paul Sheldon ( James Caan ) is a successful novelist who is growing weary of his main character, Misery Chastain. Although she has been the focus of a hugely popular series of novels, Paul wishes to ‘retire’ the character and focus on writing something more personal. After finishing the final words of his latest book, Paul sets out from his winter lodge and begins the drive back to civilization. Let’s just say he doesn’t make it. Based on the fantastic novel by Stephen King , Misery is just as good a film. When Paul Sheldon is rescued from a car crash by his ‘number one fan’, we begin to understand what the movie is really about. Annie Wilkes loves Paul’s novels with a passion. Unfortunately, it’s pretty evident that she’s also a few sandwiches shy of a picnic and that Paul’s got some trouble. Annie is an ex-nurse, and she goes about assisting Paul in his ‘rehabilitation’. See, both his legs are broken, and Annie is getting progressively…odder. You’d think a movie centred on two characters in one room wouldn’t offer much in the way of excitement, but then I’d guess you haven’t seen this one. As it begins to dawn on Paul that help isn’t on its way, Misery takes on a sense of claustrophobic urgency. You’ll be yelling at the screen, trying to help him escape. And as Annie spirals slowly into insanity, things begin to look more and more bleak for Paul. Directed by Rob Reiner , t aren’t many missed opportunities ; a scene in which Paul attempts an escape while Annie is away will leave you sweating, and t’s a great sequence w Paul hatches a plan to poison his captor. Reiner establishes a sense of isolation perfectly, with Annie’s house appearing homey and warm in one scene, and terrifying and dark in the next. And I won’t even get into the scene in which Paul gets ‘hobbled’. Kathy Bates deservedly took home an Oscar for her performance as Annie, and James Caan is wonderful in what must have been a tough role to play, since he spends most of it covered with casts and lying in bed. In an entertaining subplot, Richard Farnsworth and Frances Sternhagen play the town sheriff and his crotchety wife, who slowly figure out w Paul might be. Lauren Bacall is cool as Paul’s editor and the late great character actor JT Walsh shows up for one scene as a state trooper. Misery might have been Stephen King ’s version of Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories; a message to his fans that things can’t always be the way the want, and writers cannot always keep producing the same stuff. King has mentioned that he wrote Misery in response to his fans complaining about him getting away from his ‘older, scarier stuff’... read more

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