On this day in 1990, COLUMBIA PICTURES released MISERY. Directed by ROB REINER, this movie was his second big-screen adaptation of a best selling STEPHEN KING novel after the huge success of STAND BY ME. This time around, JAMES CAAN plays a best-selling author who finds himself prisoner of an obsessed, psychotic fan (played by KATHY BATES, who won an Oscar for her performance). Misery was slightly claustrophobic yet completely suspenseful; REINER was totally Hitchcockian with this one.