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