Misery
Movie • 1990 • Suspense
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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It is revealed in the movie that the antagonist killed infants.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Are there abusive parents?
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While no literal abusive parents, much of the emotional horror is reminiscent of emotional parental abuse, particularly her rant about feeding and dressing Paul and receiving no thanks for it.
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Is someone stalked?
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A woman describes watching a man and following him, not seen.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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In the movie, Paul “cheeks” the pills and secretly stores them in his mattress, rarely actually taking them.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Another deviation from the book, in which Paul is implied to be drunk when he crashes his car (not the case in the movie.) Here, champagne and wine are consumed in moderation.
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The main antagonist gives the protagonist pain pills called Norvil.
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Animal
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Does a pet die?
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There's a cute pet pig. She is unharmed and does not die.
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Assault
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Is someone restrained?
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Yes, in multiple ways as the central theme is around a kidnapping.
Physically held down, mechanically restrained to a bed, chemically sedated multiple times (regular tablets and multiple injections), significant assault to prevent mobility.
Physically held down, mechanically restrained to a bed, chemically sedated multiple times (regular tablets and multiple injections), significant assault to prevent mobility.
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-- SPOILER --
Yes, it is retaliatory violence after prolonged kidnapping, torture, physical assault, psychological abuse, etc. while trying to escape.
Yes, it is retaliatory violence after prolonged kidnapping, torture, physical assault, psychological abuse, etc. while trying to escape.
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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Paul attempts to gouge out Annie’s eyes, leaving her with a bloodied face.
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Is someone tortured?
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the plot revolves around an author being held captive by his ‘biggest fan’ who goes onto torture him by breaking his ankles, force feeding him pills and more acts of psychoticness
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Not really, I guy is kicked in the under carriage.
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Is someone burned alive?
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A woman's clothing catches a small fire but she defuses it quickly.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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A slightly early scene in which the main character cannot move while another uses a shaving knife for his neck and face hair. There’s no blood or cuts shown but it is anxiety inducing.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Someone in a book is mentioned, not a real person.
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Does someone break a bone?
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a character breaks her hostages ankles with a sledgehammer- not too graphic but can be hard to watch with the yelling and anticipation
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Is someone choked?
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In a physical altercation, an attempt is made to choke out one party.
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Is someone stabbed?
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There are multiple instances of involuntary injections
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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In the book, at least, Annie kills her roommate by causing her to trip on the stairs.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Not to the death, but after a car crash the protagonist’s car rolls down a hill and gets severely injured.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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There are mentions of child death in news paper articles about the main antagonist.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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No, but there is a failed attempt to poison someone by overdosing them on pills. They (un)fortunately do not ingest the drink.
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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It’s implied via newspaper clippings that Annie killed her parents before the start of the story.
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Does someone cheat?
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No cheating, the sheriff’s wife just likes to make jokes about him cheating on her. It’s all very lighthearted
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Fear
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Safe
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Don't know why someone marked this 'yes'. Misery came out in 1990. 9/11 happened in 2001.
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Law Enforcement
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Is there incarceration?
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A major character was acquitted of a crime due to lack of evidence, so no incarceration is shown, but only spoken of
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Not an artifact, but the only copy of his manuscript is destroyed
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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A syringe is injected into a characters arm in two scenes. Pretty graphic too.
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Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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A character talks about and prepares firearms with the intention to murder-suicide and had to be talked down.
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No but the main character repeatedly re-injures himself (he doesn’t want to but assumes that he’ll be fine/has no other choice) while nearly immobilized and it’s quite painful to watch.
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Is there misophonia?
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When the author is eating with Annie he clicks his tongue once really aggressively which sounds a bit like smacking lips.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Annie’s poor mental health is frequently scapegoated as the reason she’s violent and cruel. (“is: “psycho”, “crazy”, etc” )
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Not in those exact words, but Annie admits she thinks about shooting herself.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Slight spoilers but at the end of the movie the main character is shown to experience PTSD symptoms (how could he not) and even have delusions/flashbacks of what he went through, while assumed by others that he had already gotten over it.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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No, but the book the movie is based on comments on the antagonist's weight and appearance a lot.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Most of the movie takes place in one room that the protagonist cannot leave due to his injuries.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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A character describes experiencing low mood in the rain.
The sadistic main character's abusive, obsessive, manipulative, assaultive, criminal behaviour is framed to be due to a mental illness.
The sadistic main character's abusive, obsessive, manipulative, assaultive, criminal behaviour is framed to be due to a mental illness.
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Natural Disasters
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Noxious
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Some.
Funnily though, Annie, the captor, avoids all curse words and even forces her captive to remove all swear words from his manuscript.
Funnily though, Annie, the captor, avoids all curse words and even forces her captive to remove all swear words from his manuscript.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Not explicitly nor is it really certain if any pregnant women died, but in one scene it could be implied that that might have happened when talking about a maternity nurse having committed murders.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Mentioned in newspaper clippings
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
66 supporters
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Annie calls Paul a c********r towards the end of the film. Not necessarily a slur, but it’s a very derogatory term for gay men.
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Are there fat jokes?
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No, but the antagonist is a fat woman, and in the book, her weight is commented on a lot, as well as her overall appearance.
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Is there hate speech?
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Annie uses an anti-Italian slur when discussing the Sistine Chapel.
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Is a minority misrepresented?
40 supporters
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You could argue this is the case for people with a major mental illness
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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In the book, not in the movie; it's used once.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Both the book and movie make lots of use of the "mentally ill=violent" trope, as is typical for horror.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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Annie claims that God is influencing her actions a few times
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
81 supporters
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Not in the movie; in the book, the narrator comments about masturbating, and if I recall correctly, the antagonist threatens to cut off/burn his p***s
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
26 supporters
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Not specifically crying but he’s yelling in pain while she calls him a crybaby.
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Sickness
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Social
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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The ending is happy, though the protagonist goes through hell to get there.
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
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the protagonist gets injured in a car crash, when the antagonist finds him and the plot begins
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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Multiple instances of such, primarily at the beginning/end of movie. There are also many instances in which the main character is in pain because of his injuries or even re-injures himself accidentally.
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Is there gun violence?
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Annie shoots the sheriff from behind, just when he discovers Paul and Paul thinks he might be saved.
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