Misery

Famed novelist Paul Sheldon writes Victorian romance novels featuring a character named Misery Chastain. Though the books are profitable, Paul despises the series and wishes to focus on writing more serious literature. He has just left the cabin in Silver Creek, Colorado, where he completed a manuscript he hopes will launch his post-Misery career. En route to New York City, he is caught in a blizzard and crashes his Mustang over an embankment. Annie Wilkes finds him and brings him to her remote home.
Paul awakens to find himself bedridden with broken legs and a dislocated shoulder. Annie, a nurse who claims to be his "number one fan", says she will care for him until telephone lines are reconnected and the local roads are cleared following the storm. Annie's disturbing behavior gradually emerges, culminating in her reading the latest Misery novel and discovering that Misery dies at the end. Flying into a rage, she reveals that she never informed anyone about Paul, and no one knows his whereabouts.
Annie forces Paul to burn the only copy of his new manuscript. She buys typing paper and an antique typewriter, then orders him to bring Misery back in a new book; Paul reluctantly complies. He later finds a bobby pin and, while Annie is away, uses it to unlock the bedroom door. While exploring the house in a wheelchair, Paul discovers that the phone is not working and that the outer doors cannot be opened without a key. He begins stockpiling his painkillers and tries to drug Annie, but she accidentally foils his plan. He later finds a scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings revealing that Annie was tried for several infant deaths at the hospital where she worked; she claimed innocence, the case lacked evidence and the trial collapsed. Annie discovers that Paul escaped the room and breaks his ankles with a sledgehammer to hobble him.
Meanwhile, Buster, the local sheriff is investigating Paul's disappearance and follows clues to Annie's home. When he finds Paul drugged in the basement, Annie kills Buster with a shotgun; she intends to kill Paul in a murder–suicide, but he persuades her to let him finish the novel. While she fetches the wheelchair, he hides a can of lighter fluid inside his trousers.
That night, Paul finishes the novel and sends Annie to the kitchen for celebratory champagne before dousing the manuscript with lighter fluid. When Annie returns, Paul holds up the final pages and taunts her about Misery's ending before lighting them on fire. As a horrified Annie pleads for him not to do this, Paul sets the manuscript on fire so Annie can never know Misery's fate; as she is distracted, he strikes her with the typewriter. With the manuscript destroyed, Annie becomes enraged and tries to kill Paul, but Paul fights back. They engage in a violent struggle, with Paul suffering a gunshot wound and Annie briefly getting knocked out when she falls head-first onto the typewriter. The struggle ends when Paul strikes Annie in the face with a heavy iron doorstop, killing her.
Eighteen months later, Paul, now walking with a cane, meets with his literary agent, Marcia, at a New York City restaurant. They discuss his first post-Misery novel, which has received critical acclaim and is expected to be a bestseller, and Paul admits that his ordeal helped revive his passion for writing. Marcia asks him to consider a nonfiction book about his experience, but Paul declines. A waitress approaches, and he momentarily hallucinates that she is Annie, commenting that he still thinks about her once in a while. The waitress then says she is his "number one fan", as Paul meekly replies, "That's very sweet of you."