Secret Window
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Secret Window is a 2004 movie starring Johnny Depp and John Turturro. It was written and directed by David Koepp, based on the novella Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King. The story appeared in King's collection Four Past Midnight. The film's studio is Columbia Pictures along with Sony Pictures.
Plot
Johnny Depp plays successful writer Mort Rainey, who is suffering from writer's block and is in the middle of a divorce with his wife, Amy. Living alone in the woods, Mort is confronted one day by the mysterious John Shooter who accuses him of plagiarism: they have both written almost identical stories, Mort's "Secret Window" and Shooter's "Sowing Season."
The movie follows Mort's struggles to prove conclusively to Shooter and to himself that he has not plagiarised the story. As the story progresses, Shooter murders a private investigator that Mort had hired to investigate Shooter, and a local man who was the only person to see them together. He also burns down the house of Mort's soon-to-be ex-wife.
Mort eventually locates the magazine that proves he published "Secret Window" before Shooter wrote "Sowing Season." But when Mort gets the magazine, he finds that the story has been cut out. Mort's inner voice tells him that since the magazine was sent to him in a sealed UPS package, Shooter could not have tampered with it. Soon Mort realizes that Shooter is not real, that he made him up, and that he himself was the one that committed the murders. During this revelation, his concerned wife drives up to his cabin, and at that instant he changes his persona from the well-meaning Mort to the murderous Shooter. He then kills his wife and her lover, Ted, with a shovel and buries them in a garden, where no one ever finds them. After that Mort's life changes profoundly, his writer's block is over and his passion for life is back.
Tagline: Some windows should never be opened.
Cast
- Johnny Depp ..... Mort Rainey
- John Turturro ..... John Shooter
- Maria Bello ..... Amy Rainey
- Timothy Hutton ..... Ted Milner
- Charles S. Dutton .....Ken Karsch
- Len Cariou ..... Sheriff Dave Newsome
- Joan Heney ..... Mrs. Garvey
- John Dunn Hill ..... Tom Greenleaf
- Vlasta Vrana ..... Fire Chief Wickersham
- Matt Holland ..... Detective Bradley
- Gillian Ferrabee ..... Fran Evans
- Bronwen Mantel ..... Greta Bowie
- Elizabeth Marleau ..... Juliet
- Kyle Allatt ..... Busboy
- Richard Jutras ..... Motel Manager
- Kevin Woodhouse ..... Public Works Guy
- Vito De Filippo ..... Public Works Guy
- Sarah Allen ..... Sheriff's Niece
External links
- Official Site (http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/secretwindow/)
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- Secret Window at Movies.com (http://movies.go.com/movies/S/secretwindowsecretgarden_2004/)