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Secret Window is a 2004 thriller 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. Download high resolution version (506x705, 31 KB)Secret Window movie poster This work is copyrighted. ...
David Koepp (born June 9, 1963 in Pewaukee, Wisconsin) is an American screenwriter and director. ...
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David Koepp (born June 9, 1963 in Pewaukee, Wisconsin) is an American screenwriter and director. ...
Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II[2] on June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an Academy Award-nominated and SAG Awards-winning American actor and for his performances in the films Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Ed Wood (1994...
John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor noted for his performances in To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), The Color of Money (1986), Five Corners (1987), Men of Respect (1991), Monday Night Mayhem (1999), Secret Window (2004), The Bronx is Burning...
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Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II[2] on June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an Academy Award-nominated and SAG Awards-winning American actor and for his performances in the films Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Ed Wood (1994...
John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor noted for his performances in To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), The Color of Money (1986), Five Corners (1987), Men of Respect (1991), Monday Night Mayhem (1999), Secret Window (2004), The Bronx is Burning...
David Koepp (born June 9, 1963 in Pewaukee, Wisconsin) is an American screenwriter and director. ...
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Plot
Johnny Depp plays successful writer Mort Rainey, who is suffering from writer's block and has retreated to an isolated lakeside cabin in the face of a divorce from his wife, Amy (Maria Bello). The source of the divorce is Mort having made the unfortunate discovery of his wife cheating on him with Ted Milner (Timothy Hutton), now her boyfriend. Living alone in the woods, Mort is confronted one day by the mysterious John Shooter (John Turturro) who accuses him of plagiarism. Shooter gives Mort a book he claims to have written. Writers block is a phenomenon involving temporary loss of ability to continue writing, usually due to lack of inspiration or creativity. ...
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John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor noted for his performances in To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), The Color of Money (1986), Five Corners (1987), Men of Respect (1991), Monday Night Mayhem (1999), Secret Window (2004), The Bronx is Burning...
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At first, Mort regards Shooter as a madman and throws away the book. But he cannot stop thinking about it, and finally reads it. It is almost exactly the same. The movie follows Mort's struggles to prove conclusively to Shooter and to himself that he has not plagiarized the story. Shooter continually harasses Mort, and later kills his dog. As the story progresses, Mort hires a private investigator (Charles S. Dutton) and asks the help of the local sheriff, who doesn't believe him. The investigator asks if there are any witnesses, and Mort remembers a local man saw them together. But Shooter then murders both the investigator and the man and leaves them in a car. Mort then pushes the car into the river, but forgets his watch in the car. Shooter also burns down the house of Mort's soon-to-be ex-wife. Ted is convinced that Mort is the culprit responsible for the burning. A private investigator, private detective, PI, or private eye, is a person who undertakes investigations, usually for a private citizen or some other entity not involved with a government or police organization. ...
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Mort eventually locates the magazine that proves he published "Secret Window" before Shooter wrote "Sowing Season." He goes to the post office, where he gets the story. But when he gets out of his car, the sheriff approaches him with a smirk asking him if he could ask a few questions. Mort then leaves. 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. Prompting from his own conscience leads Mort to the realization that Shooter is not real, only a figment of Mort's imagination brought so vividly to life through undetected dissociative identity disorder to personify the dark side of Mort's personality and to commit acts that Mort himself feels he could not commit (murder, arson). During this revelation, his concerned ex-wife drives up to his cabin, and at that instant he changes his persona from the well-meaning Mort to the murderous Shooter. When his ex-wife walks in he is gone. She starts searching the house for Mort. All over the walls she sees inscriptions of the word "shooter". She realises after Mort reveals himself that "shooter" actually means "shoot her". After she realises this she tries to run away but Mort is too quick for her. He then kills his ex-wife and her lover, Ted, with a shovel and buries them in a garden where he later plants a crop of corn. Afterwards Mort changes profoundly, his writer's block finally over and his passion for life returned. The movie, however, ends on a rather sinister note. The local sheriff informs Mort that he knows what he did and as soon as they find the bodies, he'll go to prison. Mort dismisses the statement nonchalantly, and replies that "the ending is the most important part of the story. This one is perfect." It is then revealed to us that by growing and consuming corn from the garden where his ex-wife and her lover are buried, Mort is slowly destroying all the evidence needed to incriminate him bit by bit. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), as defined by the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), is a mental condition whereby a single individual evidences two or more distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. ...
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It should be noted that this ending is almost the exact opposite of the novella's ending. In the original story, Rainey's wife discovers Mort's madness, and Mort is killed, not his ex-wife and her fiance. The story, which up to this point has been a totally non-supernatural tale, takes on a slightly more spooky tone, as it is revealed in a short postscript that Mort's ex-wife has received a letter from Shooter, telling her that he is returning to Mississippi to write a new novel. This letter is sent to her, after Mort has been killed, suggesting that Shooter has taken on a life of his own.
Cast Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II[2] on June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an Academy Award-nominated and SAG Awards-winning American actor and for his performances in the films Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Ed Wood (1994...
John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor noted for his performances in To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), The Color of Money (1986), Five Corners (1987), Men of Respect (1991), Monday Night Mayhem (1999), Secret Window (2004), The Bronx is Burning...
Maria Elaine Bello (born April 18, 1967) is an American actress. ...
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Differences from the novella - In the novella, Mort Rainey has a cat named Bump, who is killed by Shooter. He never had a dog.
- The confrontation he has with Ted on the street never occurred.
- In the novella, the magazine containing Mort's story is burned along with Amy's house. In the movie, the house is burnt, along with the magazines, however, Mort then has his publicist send him the other copies of the magazine.
- In the novella, Mort is shot and killed seconds before he is about to murder Amy. However, at the end of the movie, he kills both Ted and Amy and buries them in his garden.
- There are two notable differences between companies used. During the novella Mort Rainey often drinks cola, in the form of Coke and Pepsi, whereas in the film he drinks Mountain Dew. The company used to deliver the Ellery Queen magazine to Mort is Fed-Ex in the novella but UPS in the film.
- In the novella, it is revealed the name 'John Shooter', is a combination of names. John was the name of an old classmate he stole a story from and got away with. Shooter comes from the name of the Tennessee town in which Ted grew up - Shooter's Knob (Shooter's Bay in the film). Ted's Southern accent is the subconscious reason Shooter's Mississippi drawl so irritates Mort.
- In the novella, Mort's story is called "Sowing Season", and Shooter's is "Secret Window, Secret Garden". In the film, it is reversed. It is unknown why the change was made.
- The novella takes place near the fictional King setting of Derry, Maine. The movie shifts the setting to upstate New York.
Trivia - Alternative rock band Brand New got the title for their song "Sowing Season (Yeah)" from the name of John Shooter's story.
- While Depp awakens from his nap and imagines himself falling onto rocks below, the ocean/rock background footage was shot for but not used in The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
- A mantle clock is shown several times in the film. Next to the clock is a copy of the Tom Robbins novel Villa Incognito.
- The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson is shown on Mort's coffee table after he awakens from one of his naps. (Johnny Depp previously portrayed Thompson in Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas and was good friends with the author. A film version of The Rum Diary is in pre-production, with Depp signed on to play the lead.)
- Originally, the film was to end with the camera continuing its pan down into the cornfield, showing Ted and Amy's decaying bodies. Koepp decided against this, feeling that it was too gruesome. The footage can be found in the deleted scenes section of the DVD.
- When Mort forcefully removes Amy from her car, it takes longer for her to hit the ground than it does for her car to hit the tree.
- Timothy Hutton (Ted) played Thad Beaumont, a writer struggling against the embodiment of his pseudonym, in the similarly themed Stephen King movie The Dark Half (film).
- One version of the scene where Mort is physically faced with his thoughts (where the actor appeared onscreen with himself) had him speaking as Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken and Roman Polanski, all of whom Depp has worked with and can imitate well.
- In the scene with two Morts appearing onscreen, one of the Morts exclaims wordlessly to express his frustration ("Ra! Ra! Ra!"). Johnny Depp came up with the idea after watching his son Jack, who was then pre-verbal, attempt to communicate, feeling that by this point, Mort was so confused that he would revert to a pre-verbal state.
- Len Cariou, who played Sheriff Dave Newsome, is well-known for his portrayal of the character Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Johnny Depp will also be starring as Sweeney Todd in the upcoming Tim Burton movie.
- When Amy discovers the first inscriptions of 'Shooter' on the table, a barbie doll is lying in the exact position she is killed in.
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