In the scene where James Caan's character is lying in bed, practising grabbing a large knife from his arm sling, there is the metallic sound as he pulls out the knife. In the sling are his arm and the knife. There is nothing the knife could be pulled against to make the sound. See more...
There was a scene filmed in which Annie Wilkes runs over a younger police officer with a lawnmower, but it was cut because the director thought audiences would laugh at it. See more...
Directed by Rob Reiner, starring James Caan, Kathy Bates (add more)
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Annie tells Paul that she got the typewriter cheap because the M is missing. However he then writes "smudge" on a piece of paper and the m is in the word. [She tells him it is missing an "N". That is why in a later scene the word "and" is spelled "a d".]
A shotgun does not tear a large hole right through the body of a man - like when Annies shoots the sheriff. Not even at close range. [The wound doesn't go through his whole body; they only show the wound when he falls foward and when they do show it, it's on his back.]
Annie doesn't like that Paul "kills off" Misery in the end of his new manuscript, so she forces him to burn it and start all over again. But when he writes the new one, he picks up from where the destroyed manuscript ends, bringing her back to life by digging her grave up. She turns out to only have been in a deathlike coma from a bee-sting. [The new beginning made her happy and neither manuscript was instantaneously published. That meant that only Paul and Annie what happened in both stories.]
Corrected by Rlvlk
When Paul is searching the house in the wheelchair and starts reading the scrapbook articles about Annie, they start to tell the story concerning the headline but if you freeze frame you can see the story just starts to repeat it self. [According to the rules of this site, if you have to use freeze-frame to see it, it's not a valid mistake.]
Corrected by wizard_of_gore
Annie's hearing must be extremely good and she must be extremely fast so that she can hear the sheriff's car so far away, grab the syringe and run to Sheldon's room before the car has reached the house. [Well, she lives out in the middle of nowhere. Cars don't come by all that often, I'm sure. You tend to notice things like that when they rarely happen. Having lived in the country, I know this for a fact.]
Corrected by Phixius
When Annie returns,after yelling at him for killing Misery,she finds Paul on the floor next to the bed wrapped in blankets. How did he wrap himself so tight? [He wasn't wrapped in any blankets.]
When Paul complains that the paper smudges, Paul types seven letters on a piece of paper to prove it. In the next scene, we see the word he typed was "smudge" which only has six letters. [He actually types 6 lettors.]
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