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Misery(1990)
Released
1990 · FILM

Misery

A celebrated novelist desperate to abandon his lucrative “Misery” series finds himself immobilized and captive in a remote mountain cabin, where an obsessive fan‑nurse forces him to rewrite the story of his own survival before she can kill his chance at freedom.

“Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now, he’s writing to stay alive.”

Directed by
Rob Reiner
Written by
Stephen King, William Goldman
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
107 min
DramaThriller

Synopsis

After an accident, novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who says she is his biggest fan. The nurse’s obsession leads her to hold him captive in her remote Colorado home, where she forces him to revive the popular literary character he had killed off.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Robert LeightonShot by Barry SonnenfeldScored by Marc ShaimanDesigned by Norman Garwood

Box Office

1990 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$61.3M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$61.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $61.3M — 100% of worldwide · International: $23K (0%)

Opening weekend: $10.1M — 16% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $13.0M — 21% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,244 theaters

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Also known as

  • Stephen King's Miseryen
  • Misery non deve morireit

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