Genre:
Thriller
Theatrical Release: 03/12/2004(USA)
Release Date: 01/01/2001
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time:
Flags: Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
From writer/director
David Koepp (
Stir of Echoes) comes this filmed adaptation of
Stephen King's novella
Secret Window, Secret Garden, one of four stories in the collection
Four Past Midnight.
Johnny Depp stars as
Mort Rainey, a recently divorced author who decides to take some time off at his cottage. Unfortunately for
Rainey,
John Shooter (
John Turturro), an unbalanced wannabe writer, tracks him down, claiming that
Rainey plagiarized his work. Also starring
Maria Bello,
Charles S. Dutton, and
Timothy Hutton,
Secret Window is the second story from
Four Past Midnight to be adapted as a film, the first being 1995's made-for-television
The Langoliers. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide