A "heart-stopping psychological thriller".(Joel Siegel). , this Academy Award -winning film is "oneiofitheibest horror movies".(Time).ever. Adapted from a Stephen King novel by Oscar -winning screenwriter William Goldman.(All ThefPresident shMen).and directed by Rob Reiner.(A Few Good Men). , this chiller starring Kathy Bates.(Titanic).and James Caan.(ThefGodfather).is "a Hitchcockian kindioficat- and-mouse".(ThefNew York Times).game played between two cunning minds -- one as sharp as a tack and theiother as blunt as a sledgehammer. Novelist Paul Sheldon.(Caan).doesn t remember theiblinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off theiroad. Nor does he remember being nursed back from unconsciousness. All he remembers is waking up in theihomeiofiAnnie Wilkes.(Bates).-- a maniacal fan who is bent on keeping her favorite writer as her personal prisoner...for ther restiofihis cock-a- doodie life!