Secret Window

"The most important part of a story is the ending."

Mar 12 2004 PG-13 1h 36m
Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

Plot

Mort Rainey is a successful writer going through a rather unfriendly divorce from his wife of ten years, Amy. Alone and bitter in his cabin, he continues to work on his writing when a stranger named John Shooter shows up on his doorstep, claiming Rainey stole his story. Mort says he can prove the story belongs to him and not Shooter, but while Mort digs around for the magazine which published the story in question years ago, things begin to happen around Shooter. Mort's dog dies, people begin to die, and his divorce proceedings with Amy continue to get uglier. It seems that Shooter has Mort over a barrel, but perhaps Mort has his own ideas on how to resolve all the problems that plague him lately.

Written by

Stephen King, David Koepp

Directed by

David Koepp

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures, Grand Slam Productions, Pariah Entertainment Group, Mel's Cite du Cinema

Languages

English

Awards

3 nominations total

Scores
# of Votes
214,957
Average Rating
6.5 out of 10
Metascore
46
Popularity
NA