Secret Window

All that really matters is the ending. That's what Mort Rainey says. A movie from 2004, Secret Window takes the cake, or in a more formal manner from the movies perspective; takes the corn. Johnny Depp gives a stunningly, chilling performance as the schizophrenic writer, Mort Rainey.

Secret Window was inspired by the short story Secret Window, Secret Garden in the short story collection Four Past Midnight by Stephen King.

We open on Mr. Rainey sitting in his Jeep outside of a motel. He is telling himself not to go back, for he has seen his wife of ten years, Amy (played by Maria Bello), cheating on him by another man. But despite his head telling him no, he bursts in on couple and completely loses his head.

When we rejoin Mort he is napping on his couch six months later waking up to a knock at the door. He is greeted by a southern fellow name John Shooter (played by John Turturro). Mr. Shooter claims that Mort has stolen his story Sowing Season. Mort attempts to blow him off insisting that he never plagiarized his story. But when he gives in and reads John's novel he finds that it is just like a short story entitled Secret Window.

Throughout much more of the movie John continues to threaten Mort Rainey. Mort tells John that he wrote his story two years before Mr. Shooter has claimed to have wrote his. Shooter asks for proof, Mort says he will find the magazine it was printed in. It's at his wife's house who lives in it alone with the man she had cheated on Mort with. Mort now lives alone in a small cabin the two had rented together earlier in their marriage. But before he gets to the Magazine he finds that someone has burned down the house. Things start to get out of control.

Shortly after odder and odder things continue to happen and all the time Mort suspects Mr. John Shooter. But is it really Shooter who is doing it?

But once again, I will reveal no more. You'll have to find out the ending for yourself.

I recommend this movie to anyone likes a good mystery/oddball flick. Or for anyone who enjoys Johnny Depp's acting abilities; once again he doesn't cease to amaze. I give it two (or if I had three or four) thumbs up.