Should you watch Secret Window?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Secret Window
Film · 2004
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.
The sides of Secret Window
- A writer alone after his divorce
- A stranger accusing him of stealing a story
- A lake house in the woods
Secret Window is good for you if…
- you like an ending that changes everything you just watched.
- you like a stalker knocking at a lonely cabin door.
- you enjoy Johnny Depp as a scruffy writer losing his grip.
Secret Window is bad for you if…
- you need momentum. Much of the film is Depp alone in his lake house, waiting.
- you can't stand murders and a killed pet on screen.
About: guilt · jealousy · madness
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