Misery

Misery (1990) is a psychological thriller directed by Rob Reiner that you can watch online on iFILM. Bestselling novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car in a Colorado blizzard and wakes up in a stranger's bedroom — his legs broken, his freedom gone. The woman who saved him is Annie Wilkes. She's a nurse. She's his self-proclaimed number-one fan. And she has just read his latest manuscript.

Annie is furious. Sheldon killed off Misery Chastain, the heroine of his beloved romance series, and Annie won't stand for it. She locks him in, cuts him off from the world, and gives him one job: bring Misery back to life. Kathy Bates plays Annie with a terrifying mix of warmth and violence that won her the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 63rd Oscars in 1991. James Caan holds the opposite corner as Sheldon — a man whose survival depends entirely on keeping his captor happy.

Adapted from Stephen King's 1987 novel by screenwriter William Goldman, the film runs 107 minutes and never wastes a second. Director Reiner strips away everything but the two-person duel, and the result is a thriller that works as pure tension and as a dark joke about writers and the people who love them too much. Stream Misery (1990) in full on iFILM.