Gordon feels that Kathy Bates captured Annie's complexities particularly well in her Oscar-winning performance in Reiner's movie, which she calls one of her all-time favorite films and one of the ...

But director Rob Reiner did make a key change from the original Stephen King novel on which the 1990 film is based. In the book, Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) chops off romance novelist Paul Sheldon's ...

Kathy Bates, who won an Oscar for playing Annie Wilkes in Misery, talks about the one change the film made to her character that she didn't agree on.