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Secret Window is a 2004 American psychological horror thriller film 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 , [ 1 ] featuring a musical score by Philip Glass and Geoff Zanelli .
Secret Window: Directed by David Koepp. With Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton. A successful writer in the midst of a painful divorce is stalked at his remote lake house by a would-be scribe who accuses him of plagiarism.
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- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- David Koepp
- 2004-03-12
- Overview
- Differences between the Novel and Film
- Cast
is the name of a 2004 film based on Stephen King's novella, "Secret Window, Secret Garden."
It starred Johnny Depp as Mort Rainey, John Tuturro as John Shooter and Maria Bello as his wife, Amy.
The movie is notable for being faithful to the original story in most aspects, but in most ways are very different:
- In the novella, Mort's story is "Sowing Season" while Shooter's in "Secret Window"; in the film, they're reversed.
- In the novella, Mort has a pet cat; in the movie, it's a dog.
- In the ending of the novella, Mort is killed by police. It's then revealed the Shooter was real, having been brought to life by Mort and leaves a note saying he returned to Mississippi; in the film, Mort kills Amy and Ted, he recovers from his writer's block but has become the town pariah, and is the main suspect in Ted and Amy's disappearance, and it's implied he hid the bodies in a field of corn.
•Johnny Depp as Morton "Mort" Rainey / John Shooter
•John Turturro as "John Shooter"
•Maria Bello as Amy Rainey
•Timothy Hutton as Ted "Teddy" Milner
•Len Cariou as Sheriff Dave Newsome
•Charles S. Dutton as Private Investigator Ken Karsch
This is John Shooter (John Turturro), a writer who leaves behind a manuscript that is, indeed, almost word for word the same as Rainey’s story “Secret Window.” The plot deals with a man who has been betrayed by his wife, murders her, and buries her in her beloved garden where, after a time, she will be forgotten, “perhaps even by me.”
Stephen King. Novel. Wuchak. Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea.
Secret Window. Directed by David Koepp • 2004 • United States. Starring Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello. Following a bitter separation from his wife (Maria Bello), famed mystery writer Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp) is unexpectedly confronted at his remote lake house by a dangerous stranger named John Shooter (John Turturro). Claiming ...
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Oct 7, 2004 · Hot off the success of Pirates Of The Caribbean, onetime indie-king Johnny Depp continued his foray into the big bad world of commercial blockbusters with schlock thriller Secret Window.
