The going rate: 1998

Avg. Ticket Price: $4.69 Avg. Movie Budget: $52.7 mil

Reunions: James Caan and Kathy Bates: Sept. 9, 1999

Kathy Bates has James Caan right where she wants him again—in bed. But this time, she doesn't intend on hobbling Caan like she did in the 1990 movie Misery, about an obsessive fan who holds the writer of her dreams captive. Bates just wants to tell Caan how much he's messed things up for her. "You have no idea what you did to my sex life," Bates says with a smirk in a room at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont, where the reunion photo shoot is being held. "No man wanted me after what I'd done to you in this movie." Maybe no man outside Hollywood.

"Misery opened every door for me," Bates says. "It won me an Oscar, it got me roles I never dreamed of. It also gave permission to everyone every where to hit me with baseball-bat jokes."

Adds Caan: "I get it all the time. 'How are your ankles?' People think it's just the funniest thing ever. But after years of it, you think about just laying into them."

Originally posted Sep 24, 1999 Published in issue #504 Sep 24, 1999 Order article reprints
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