恋愛小説「ミザリー」シリーズのベストセラー作家ポールは純文学に転向しようと、シリーズの主人公の女性ミザリーの死をもってシリーズを完結させる。山中のロッジで私小説第1作を書き上げた彼は吹雪の中、家路を目指すが、車は事故に遭い、彼も重傷を負う。そんなポールは近くに住む元看護師アニーに救われるが、彼女は「ミザリー」の熱狂的ファン。彼を手厚く看護してやるが、出版された「ミザリー」最終刊を読むと豹変する。
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監督: ロブ・ライナー
脚本: スティーヴン・キング / ウィリアム・ゴールドマン
音楽: Marc Shaiman
制作: ロブ・ライナー / Andrew Scheinman
撮影監督: バリー・ソネンフェルド
In a wintery Colorado, acclaimed author “Sheldon” (James Caan) comes off the road only to be luckily (we think!) saved by the timely intervention of “Annie” (Kathy Bates) who just happens to be a nurse. More than that, she’s a superfan of his work and so makes it clear that his care is a labour of love she is well prepared to carry out. Gradually, though, he begins to realise that she isn’t quite the woman she’s claiming to be. He is locked in and isolated, and when she begins to suggest that he reactivate one of the lapsed characters from his novels - well let’s just say she has some fairly unique methods of persuasion at her disposal. With him her “guest”, his publisher “Marcia” (Lauren Bacall) is starting to worry and so a quick call to the local sheriff sees “Buster” (Richard Farnsworth) become the bear in the air as he tries to track him down. With “Sheldon” trapped and fed a diet of sedatives and torment, it’s becoming quite a race to see if anyone can ever find him, let alone rescue him from his increasingly obsessive host. Some of Caan’s facial expressions are super here, especially towards the end - but it’s the menacingly angelic effort from Bates that steals the show here and makes this quite possibly my favourite adaptation of a Stephen King novel. Those, I usually found, were rarely the most substantial of stories, but here he has provided some personas for both to sink their teeth into, and it also delivers one of those scenes that will live in cinema history for ever. The bleakness of their surroundings adds an extra degree of chill and Rob Reiner manages to build then sustain quite a degree of peril from pretty early on in the proceedings. It’s really not for the squeamish, nor probably for anyone who has ever written-out a popular literal character, either!
