Novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is the author of a series of highly successful novels featuring a character called Misery Chastain. Wanting to focus on more serious novels, he writes a manuscript for a new unrelated novel. He departs from Silver Creek, Colorado to head to Los Angeles but is caught in a blizzard and […]
The Constant Gardener
Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), a shy low-rung British diplomat and horticultural hobbyist posted in Kenya, is one to avoid making a fuss until he learns that his wife Tessa (Rachel Weisz) was found dead on the veldt. Tessa has been murdered at a crossroads along with her Kenyan driver. Her colleague doctor Arnold Bluhm (Hubert […]
Psycho
Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), a secretary in Phoenix, Arizona, steals $40,000 from one of her employer’s clients to help her financially strapped divorced boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin). She flees in her car en route to Sam’s California home, parking along the road midway to sleep. A highway patrol officer awakens her, becomes suspicious of […]
Copycat
After giving a guest lecture on criminal psychology at a local university, Dr. Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver), a respected field expert on serial killers, is cornered in a lavatory by one of her previous subjects, Daryll Lee Cullum (Harry Connick, Jr.), who kills a police officer and brutally attacks her. Helen becomes severely agoraphobic as […]