Misery

Annie tells Paul she got the typewriter because it has no "N"; in one of the first scenes where he's typing, there is clearly an "n" in his writing, at the end of the movie, there is no "n".

The soup changes from red to orange when Annie spills it on Paul.

The typewriter lands upside down after Paul hits Annie with it, yet appears in the next shot right side up.

In the scene where Paul gets the knife, an exterior shot of Annie's house is shown and her Jeep is already parked next to the house, even though in a later shot her headlights flash through Paul's window as Annie pulls up to her house.

Near the end, when Paul fights Annie he makes her bleed by putting his fingers in her eyes but in the next shot when she's on the floor after he has punched her, there is no blood under her eyes.

When Paul takes the knife out of his arm sling there is the sound of the knife brushing against metal.

The Sheriff places a Post-it note about Paul Sheldon on his board and the note is seen in three different spots over the course of three consecutive shots.

When Paul types "what else was there.

?", it is on one line in the close-up but two separate lines when he writes "The End".

There is an obvious "dummy" in Annie's place in the climactic fight scene with the typewriter.

When Paul is looking at Annie's scrapbook, her name in one of the news headlines reads "Anne M.

Wilkes," but the accompanying photo gives her name as "Anne C.

Wilkes.

" In the scrapbook paragraphs in many of the clippings are repeated several times.

Near the end, when Sheldon mistakenly thinks he has killed Annie, he crawls through the doorway over the broken champagne glass.

However, we hear no sound of the broken glass dragging across the floor.

When Annie is shaving Paul's face, the areas of shaving cream change without anyone altering them.

When Paul is in the kitchen for the first time, a crewmember is reflected in the corner of the stove, during the close-up of the knives.

Twice Paul Sheldon's car is referred to as a 1965 Ford Mustang, but the car he actually drives is a 1966.

At the end of the movie, when Paul is talking to his manager, the rose in the vase changes during shots.

When burning book gets out of control, a flaming bit of paper wafts up to the curtains and starts burning them, yet Annie never notices or puts it out.

Later the curtains are just fine.

After the search in the snow slope where he fails to see the overturned car, Buster comes back to his car there is a lot less snow on the road.

When Annie shoots the Sheriff toward the end of the movie, he falls down the stairs, face first, and stops partway down.

However, Annie immediately begins to speak to Paul and heads down the steps, walking where the corpse would have been.

There's also no blood left behind from the gaping wound in his chest.

When dining with Annie, Paul spills a few drops when pouring wine.

The stains are visible, but in the next shot they are gone.

In the scene where Annie kills the sheriff, as she walks down the stairs, there are several close-ups of Paul that show a white box with "Clearly Canadian" (the beverage) written on it.

There is a bag covering most of the "Clearly" lettering.

The box is located to the right.

However, when Annie returns with the gun and needle, the close-ups of Paul show a plain box without a bag.

In exterior shots the house, the amount of snow on top the house never changes, despite several scenes in which it is drenched in rain.

When Annie flicks through Paul's untitled manuscript when it is on the grill, it is revealed that a page of text is actually a review of 'Cameron Crowe (I)' (qv)'s _Say Anything.

(1989)_ (qv), which was released as "Misery" was filming.

During the dinner scene, the penguin figurine that Paul replace facing the wrong direction can be seen facing the right way, even though this is before Annie confronts him about it.

However, Annie discovered the misplaced figurine long before this, probably the day it happened.

During the hobbling scene, she tells Paul that she knows he's been out of his room twice.

It's never explicitly said how she knows about the second time, but likely she discovered that the knife was missing.

In the montage of shots indicating Paul's vast progress in the novel, we see a few shots of him writing the same paragraph over and over again, which begins, "for forty days and forty nights, Misery.

" During the last few minutes inside Annie Wilkes' home, Annie carries a tray from the kitchen to Paul's writing studio.

From left to right, the tray has the glass, the Dom Perignon bottle, the match, and the cigarette when she leaves the kitchen, but when she enters the writing studio, the glass is on the right when it should be on the left and the match and the cigarette are on the left when they should be on the right.

Misery, is a thriller movie about an Paul Sheldon played by James Caan, an author of a fictional books called 'Misery' who is abuducted by Annie (Kathy Bates) after a car crash, his "No.1 fan.

A writer wants to make the step from writing (commercial succesful) pulp to writing literature but is afraid for the reaction of his readers. This theme forms the basis for the film "Misery" in which writer Paul Sheldon (James Caan) becomes literally the prisoner of his number one fan Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates).

Misery (1990)*** 1/2 (out of 4) Author Paul Sheldon (James Caan) has finished his latest novel and is trying to drive down from his mountain resort when his car goes over a cliff and crashes. Soon he wakes up in the home of nurse Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) who claims to be his number one fan.

Rob Reiner directs another Stephen King adaptation, based on the novel about successful Gothic romance novelist Paul Sheldon(played By James Caan) who is hurt when his car crashes in the wilderness during a heavy blizzard. He is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes(Unforgettably played by Kathy Bates in an Academy Award winning performance) who puts him up in her isolated cabin for recovery.

It is not at all a bad movie. Both Kathy Bates and James Caan delivered.

This is definitely one of my favorite suspense type films ever. I mean...

A slow-burning psychological thriller with fantastic acting and very likable characters. If you're into psychotic villains, retro films and stories about authors, you're going to love this.

I've read this novel twice. It is wonderful, and unlike some of King's work (excluding IT and THE STAND), it isn't suffering from being overwritten.

I've just finished watching Leave Her To Heaven (1945). Is this a remake?