Secret Window (Blu-ray Disc, 2007)

This film is based upon Stephen King's novella. The film's 1st scenes are in the snow at a motel that Mort Rainey (Depp) steals the key from the office to break into, only to find his wife in bed with her lover. Rainey goes ballistic!

It follows with a slovenly avant garde writer, Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp), an alcoholic & cigarette addict, shown expressing feelings like his life's out of his own control, since his wife (Maria Bello) betrayed & left him. He quits writing but keeps on trying, staring at blank pages. He acts depressed & as if he feels worthless.

While Mort is super strung out, showing signs of falling apart emotionally, a weird Southern stranger, (John Shooter), claims that Mort has plagiarized one of his stories. Since Shooter seems like an ignorant buffoon, it's hard to imagine he can even spell let alone compose a publishable story. Shooter's way beyond the edge of deranged & attempts, thru acts of violence, to drive Mort to the brink of insanity. Mort's wife is equally crazy-making as she, along with her adulterous lover, try their best to press Depp into an unwanted divorce to be finalized.

Rainey descends into insanity with such maneuvers that take viewers into the darkest recesses of his character's mind. Like a Hitchcock film, King's focus is upon the characters themselves; instead of his usual special spooky effects. Thus, this is a thriller with a totally surprising end. It's a psychological suspense like Alfred Hitchcock films. I'll rate it a must own & advise that viewers bring popcorn~

Features Actors: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello & Charles Dutton
Running Time: 1 Hr. 36 Min.
Rating: PG-13

Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp) is hardly the embodiment of glamour or success. Sure, he's a well-published author whose success gained him a home in the heart of a New England-style suburb, but now he's relegated to an increasingly disheveled retreat perched along the banks of Tashmore Lake. His divorce from the lovely Amy (Maria Bello, Coyote Ugly) was well founded—she was caught in bed with another man at a seedy roadside motel—but the broken union is severely impacting his writing, if a single, poorly-written paragraph qualifies as "writing." But a despondent heart and an extreme case of writer's block become the least of Rainey's troubles, thanks to a malevolent Mississippian, John Shooter (John Turturro, Anger Management), who rattles the author's world, not to mention his front door, and proclaims "you stol' ma' story." Seems Shooter had written a manuscript entitled "The Secret Window" and claims Rainey's recently published short story of the same name is a blatant word-for-word copy. "This has got to be settled," Shooter seethes. Suddenly, Rainey has become trapped in his own lakeside hideaway, Shooter seemingly always lurking nearby and growing dangerously violent, threatening not only Rainey but also his estranged wife and anyone else the hapless writer turns to for help. The worst, however, has yet to be revealed. Shooter has an even darker purpose that threatens to reveal a darker truth, one that would shatter Rainey's increasingly fragile existence.

Will keep you on the edge of your seat, and guessing what will happen next!Would recommend to rent or buy!Hope this helps you decide!Thanks for reading! :)