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In 2017,Gerald's Game, ''Gerald's Game'', a (very faithful) film adaptation by Creator/MikeFlanagan, was produced by Creator/{{Netflix}}, starring Creator/CarlaGugino as Jessie and Creator/BruceGreenwood as Gerald.
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** After what happened during the eclipse is revealed, Hallucination!Gerald profoundly realizing why it didn't work out between the two of them, looking troubled when learning about the many secrets Jessie kept from him during their marriage. He looks very concerned about how [[spoiler: Jessie knows the reasons so many people choose to commit suicide by slitting their wrists]].
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** After what happened during the eclipse is revealed, Hallucination!Gerald profoundly realizing why it didn't work out between the two of them, looking troubled when learning about the many secrets Jessie kept from him during their marriage. He looks very concerned about how [[spoiler: Jessie [[spoiler:Jessie knows the reasons so many people choose to commit suicide by slitting their wrists]].
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the book, Prince (the dog that feasts on Gerald) is shot by the police. In the 2017 film, we don't learn his fate.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the book, Prince (the dog that feasts on Gerald) is shot by the police. In the 2017 film, we don't learn his fate.fate.
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In 2017, Gerald's Game, a (very faithful) film adaptation, adaptation by Creator/MikeFlanagan, was produced by Creator/{{Netflix}}, starring Creator/CarlaGugino as Jessie and Creator/BruceGreenwood as Gerald.
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* ChainedToABed: Jessie ends up with both wrists cuffed to the bedposts with real police-grade cuffs, and Gerald, who can uncuff her, dies of a heart atrack. The cuffs are too tight around her wrists to be pulled out of, the bedposts are carved such that the cuffs cannot be slid up off the ends, and the bedposts are strong enough not to be broken by pulling at them. Jessie undergoes a lengthy torment as she wrestles with herself and tries to figure out any way of surviving and escaping.
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* ChainedToABed: Jessie ends up with both wrists cuffed to the bedposts with real police-grade cuffs, and Gerald, who can uncuff her, dies of a heart atrack.attack. The cuffs are too tight around her wrists to be pulled out of, the bedposts are carved such that the cuffs cannot be slid up off the ends, and the bedposts are strong enough not to be broken by pulling at them. Jessie undergoes a lengthy torment as she wrestles with herself and tries to figure out any way of surviving and escaping.
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* ChekhovsGun: The small overhead shelf juet above the bedposts is essential to Jessie's survival and escape. She remembers Gerald put a glass of water there after taking his Viagra, and, since her cuffed hands can just grab the ends of the shelf, she is able to jostle the shelf with her left hand to slide the glass down to her right hand. The store tag Jessie took off her new slip and stashed above her left hand then allows her to roll a straw to actually drink from the glass and stave off dehydration. The glass later allows her to break it to get a shard, lodge the shard into the shelf, and create a blade to cut her right wrist to deglove and lubricate the hand enough to be able to pull out of the cuff, whereupon she is able to get herself freed the rest of the way.
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* ChekhovsGun: The small overhead wall shelf juet just above the bedposts is essential to Jessie's survival and escape. She remembers Gerald put a glass of water there after taking his Viagra, and, since her cuffed hands can just grab the ends of the shelf, she is able to jostle the shelf with her left hand to slide the glass down to her right hand. The store tag Jessie took off her new slip and stashed on the shelf above her left hand then allows her to roll a straw to actually drink from the glass and stave off dehydration. The glass later allows her to break it to get a shard, lodge the shard into the shelf, and create a blade to cut her right wrist to deglove and lubricate the hand enough to be able to pull out of the cuff, whereupon she is able to get herself freed the rest of the way.
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Jessie went to a summer house with her husband Gerald, overhearing on the autoradio about a grave-robber. They also meet a dog on the road.
Once in the house, Jessie starts cooking for both, and then went to give some meat to this god.
Hours later, Jessie and Gerald start a sex game involving her being manacled to the bed. However, Jessie change her will and refuse to play any longer, to the discontent of Gerald. During the argument, Gerald, having taken Viagra, dies from a heart attack, leaving Jessie chained to the bed...
Once in the house, Jessie starts cooking for both, and then went to give some meat to this god.
Hours later, Jessie and Gerald start a sex game involving her being manacled to the bed. However, Jessie change her will and refuse to play any longer, to the discontent of Gerald. During the argument, Gerald, having taken Viagra, dies from a heart attack, leaving Jessie chained to the bed...
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Jessie went to a summer house with Burlingame and her husband Gerald, overhearing on the autoradio about Gerald are taking a grave-robber. weekend vacation to their lake house to try to bolster their intimacy. They also meet a dog on the road.
Once in the house,disagree over Jessie starts cooking for both, trying to feed a stray dog some fancy meat, and then went retire to give some meat the bedroom where Gerald initiates a bondage game usung real handcuffs to this god.
Hours later,attach each of Jessie's wrists to the bedposts, spreading her arms. Gerald tries to enact a rape fantasy, deeply upsetting Jessie, and when they have an argument, Gerald dies on the bed of a heart attack. Jessie is completely trapped on the bed with no escape, the hungry stray dog keeps coming by, and she begins to dissociate with avatars of herself and Gerald start a sex game involving in her being manacled fear, physical decline, and desperation to escape. Even worse, a mysterious threatening figure is appearing to her in the bed. However, darkness. Jessie change begins to reopen her will and refuse to play any longer, to past, which might just be the discontent of Gerald. During the argument, Gerald, having taken Viagra, dies from way she holds onto a heart attack, leaving Jessie chained to the bed...
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Once in the house,
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* ChainedToTheBed: Jessie ends up with both wrists cuffed to the bedposts with real police-grade cuffs, and Gerald, who can uncuff her, dies of a heart atrack. The cuffs are too tight around her wrists to be pulled out of, the bedposts are carved such that the cuffs cannot be slid up off the ends, and the bedposts are strong enough not to be broken by pulling at them. Jessie undergoes a lengthy torment as she wrestles with herself and tries to figure out any way of surviving and escaping.
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* ChainedToTheBed: ChainedToABed: Jessie ends up with both wrists cuffed to the bedposts with real police-grade cuffs, and Gerald, who can uncuff her, dies of a heart atrack. The cuffs are too tight around her wrists to be pulled out of, the bedposts are carved such that the cuffs cannot be slid up off the ends, and the bedposts are strong enough not to be broken by pulling at them. Jessie undergoes a lengthy torment as she wrestles with herself and tries to figure out any way of surviving and escaping.
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* ChainedToTheBed: Jessie ends up with both wrists cuffed to the bedposts with real police-grade cuffs, and Gerald, who can uncuff her, dies of a heart atrack. The cuffs are too tight around her wrists to be pulled out of, the bedposts are carved such that the cuffs cannot be slid up off the ends, and the bedposts are strong enough not to be broken by pulling at them. Jessie undergoes a lengthy torment as she wrestles with herself and tries to figure out any way of surviving and escaping.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The glass of water Gerald takes his erection pills with and places on the overhead shelf first comes back as a means for Jessie to prevent dehydration, and then provides the means to cut her wrist open enough to pull her right hand from the cuff, the inciting victory of her ultimate escape.
* ChekhovsGun: The small overhead shelf juet above the bedposts is essential to Jessie's survival and escape. She remembers Gerald put a glass of water there after taking his Viagra, and, since her cuffed hands can just grab the ends of the shelf, she is able to jostle the shelf with her left hand to slide the glass down to her right hand. The store tag Jessie took off her new slip and stashed above her left hand then allows her to roll a straw to actually drink from the glass and stave off dehydration. The glass later allows her to break it to get a shard, lodge the shard into the shelf, and create a blade to cut her right wrist to deglove and lubricate the hand enough to be able to pull out of the cuff, whereupon she is able to get herself freed the rest of the way.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The glass of water Gerald takes his erection pills with and places on the overhead shelf first comes back as a means for Jessie to prevent dehydration, and then provides the means to cut her wrist open enough to pull her right hand from the cuff, the inciting victory of her ultimate escape.
* ChekhovsGun: The small overhead shelf juet above the bedposts is essential to Jessie's survival and escape. She remembers Gerald put a glass of water there after taking his Viagra, and, since her cuffed hands can just grab the ends of the shelf, she is able to jostle the shelf with her left hand to slide the glass down to her right hand. The store tag Jessie took off her new slip and stashed above her left hand then allows her to roll a straw to actually drink from the glass and stave off dehydration. The glass later allows her to break it to get a shard, lodge the shard into the shelf, and create a blade to cut her right wrist to deglove and lubricate the hand enough to be able to pull out of the cuff, whereupon she is able to get herself freed the rest of the way.
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* FanDisservice: Carla Gugino spends much of the film in a skimpy outfit and Bruce Greenwood, who is [[SilverFox very handsome and fit for a man in his sixties]], spends a good portion of it shirtless and with his six pack abs clearly visible at a few points but the tone and story make the effect very off putting.
* AGlassInTheHand: A young Jessie does this when the sight of her father affectionately touching her mother's hand [[spoiler:triggers a traumatic memory of her father sexually abusing her in the past]].
* MythologyGag: Gerald calls the dog Literature/{{Cujo}}.
* AGlassInTheHand: A young Jessie does this when the sight of her father affectionately touching her mother's hand [[spoiler:triggers a traumatic memory of her father sexually abusing her in the past]].
* MythologyGag: Gerald calls the dog Literature/{{Cujo}}.
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* FanDisservice: Carla Gugino spends much of the film in a skimpy outfit and Bruce Greenwood, who is [[SilverFox very handsome and fit for a man in his sixties]], spends a good portion of it shirtless and with his six pack abs clearly visible at a few points points, but the tone and story make the effect very off putting.
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* AGlassInTheHand: A young Jessie does this when the sight of her father affectionately touching her mother's hand [[spoiler:triggers a traumatic memory of her father sexually abusing her in thepast]].
past]]. Remembering this incident gets Jessie to realize she can use the glass of water she currently has to cut her right wrist enough to escape its cuff.
* MythologyGag: Gerald calls the dogLiterature/{{Cujo}}.Literature/{{Cujo}}, referencing another famous Stephen King story.
* AGlassInTheHand: A young Jessie does this when the sight of her father affectionately touching her mother's hand [[spoiler:triggers a traumatic memory of her father sexually abusing her in the
* MythologyGag: Gerald calls the dog
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* PsychosexualHorror: Jessie is chained to her bed as part of her husband Gerald's sexual fantasy. Unfortunately, Gerald dies of a heart attack after taking Viagra and Jessie is left trapped in the bedroom and chained to the bed. [[spoiler: Unbeknownst to Gerald, Jessie has a fear of intimacy and sex after her father sexually abused her when she was 12 and she drifted towards him because Gerald reminded her of her father.]]
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Jessie went to a summer house with her husband Gerald, overhearing on the autoradio about a grave-robber. They also meet a dog on the road.
Once in the house, Jessie starts cooking for both, and then went to give some meat to this god.
Hours later, Jessie and Gerald start a sex game involving her being manacled to the bed. However, Jessie change her will and refuse to play any longer, to the discontent of Gerald. During the argument, Gerald, having taken Viagra, dies from a heart attack, leaving Jessie chained to the bed...
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In addition to the tropes occuring in the original book, below are those exclusive to the movie.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Gerald in the book is described as nearing fifty, overweight and losing his hair. Movie!Gerald is played by Bruce Greenwood, who, despite being more than a decade older than Book!Gerald, is a [[SilverFox very attractive man]] with a full head of hair and an impressive physique for his age.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: A ''very'' small example, but along with the PetTheDog example below, in the film [[spoiler: Gerald is a LITTLE less aggressive and backs off, angry but also disappointed, when Jessie struggles against him via biting his lip, before he has his heart attack. In the book Gerald refuses to back down at all, forcing Jessie to kick him repeatedly, which is suggested to have been the last bit of stress that triggers said heart attack. Whether Movie!Gerald would have uncuffed Jessie then had he not suffered said heart attack, or reverted to his book behavior is left up in the air.]]
* AdaptationNameChange:
** {{Downplayed|Trope}}. It doesn't apply to a character's birth name, but ''nick''name. In the book, Jessie's father nicknamed her "Punkin", in the movie, it's "Mouse".
** In the book, Jessie refers to the mysterious stranger in the room as "the Space Cowboy". In the film, he's dubbed "the Moonlight Man".
* AdaptationalModesty: In the book, Jessie is topless and wears nothing but a pair of underwear throughout her ordeal. In the film, she wears a full slip.
* AdaptedOut: Ruth Neary, Nora Callahan, Meggie Landis, Brandon Milheron... basically, if the character wasn't physically in the house or a family member of Jessie's in the book, they don't show up in the 2017 film.
* AscendedExtra: In the book, Gerald lies dead on the floor and only briefly appears in Jessie's hallucinations. In the 2017 movie, he serves as a major hallucination that tries to talk her down and manipulate her.
* CanonWelding: In the 2017 movie, when Jessie is coming to terms with the likelihood that she's going to die when the Moonlight Man returns, Gerald tells her "All things serve the Beam." This could be either a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'', or have considerably deeper implications.
** Another case comes in the form of a cameo from [[Film/{{Hush}} a copy of "The Midnight Mass" by Maddie Young]].
* ChekhovsGunman: The grave-robber spoken about on the radio in the beginning of the movie is Joubert. Likewise, the dog which will eat part of Gerald's body was previously met on the road.
* FanDisservice: Carla Gugino spends much of the film in a skimpy outfit and Bruce Greenwood, who is [[SilverFox very handsome and fit for a man in his sixties]], spends a good portion of it shirtless and with his six pack abs clearly visible at a few points but the tone and story make the effect very off putting.
* AGlassInTheHand: A young Jessie does this when the sight of her father affectionately touching her mother's hand [[spoiler:triggers a traumatic memory of her father sexually abusing her in the past]].
* MythologyGag: Gerald calls the dog Literature/{{Cujo}}.
* PetTheDog: In the movie, Hallucination!Gerald is genuinely horrified that [[spoiler:Jessie was sexually molested by her father and gives her a wistful farewell when she escapes her bondage.]]
** After what happened during the eclipse is revealed, Hallucination!Gerald profoundly realizing why it didn't work out between the two of them, looking troubled when learning about the many secrets Jessie kept from him during their marriage. He looks very concerned about how [[spoiler: Jessie knows the reasons so many people choose to commit suicide by slitting their wrists]].
* SettingUpdate: The 2017 film moves the setting to TheNewTens, rather than 1992, when the book was written. By extension the day of the eclipse moves forward from 1963 to somewhere around 1989.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the book, Prince (Jessie's canine visitor) is shot by police. The film version doesn't tell us the dog's ultimate fate.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: There's a smartphone Jessie attempts to use near the bed, before reading the battery was flat.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the book, Prince (the dog that feasts on Gerald) is shot by the police. In the 2017 film, we don't learn his fate.
