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Secret Window on DVD (2004)
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Given his sound treatment of novelist Richard Matheson's chiller Stir of Echoes, you'd have thought director David Koepp would have been more than qualified to create a good Stephen King adaptation. However, movie history is littered with poor attempts to exploit literary cash cow King, and this lacklustre psychological thriller unfortunately joins them. In another of his eccentric performances, Johnny Depp stars as a successful author whose writer's block is nothing compared to the hell that he encounters when psychotic stranger John Turturro accuses him of plagiarism. Ironically, given its storyline, the film unfolds just like another King book, The Dark Half, a weakness that isn't helped by Koepp's heavy signposting of twists. While Depp's emotional seesawing and Turturro's furrow-browed intensity are entertaining in themselves, you can't help wondering what two fine actors are doing in something that feels made for a small-screen audience. Halliwell's Film Guide Depp valiantly attempts to keep alive this hand-me-down thriller, but his portrait of an author as a seedy slob isn't enough. Time Out Six months back, fiction writer Mort Rainey (Depp) found his wife in bed with another man. Now he can't bring himself... Read more on www.timeout.com Members ReviewsReviews Voted Most HelpfulMost Recent Reviews |
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