Unseating James Caan as the least convincing Stephen King stand-in ever, Johnny Depp is hopelessly miscast.
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Secret Window (2004)
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Reviews Counted:155
Fresh:72
Rotten:83
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Depp is quirkily entertaining, but the movie runs out of steam by the end.
Theatrical Release:Mar 12, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $47,781,388
Synopsis: Based on a Stephen King novella, the psychological thriller SECRET WINDOW is reminiscent of an Alfred Hitchcock film. Eccentric author Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp) finds his life spiraling out of... [More]
Starring: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Charles S. Dutton
Director: David Koepp
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Reviews for Secret Window
All the corn pone in Mississippi can't make this go down like anything but year-old grits.
03/12/04
Funny, handsomely shot and has some really creepy stuff involving reflections in mirrors -- but it's also packed with a few too many false scares, obvious red herrings and mayhem you can see coming from a mile away.
03/12/04
Koepp keeps the suspense going. And amazingly he does it with a minimum of violence and special effects, relying instead on such old-fashioned ideas as character, atmosphere and the occasional, time-honored, bump in the night.
03/12/04
Top CriticWorks well as a showcase for Depp's idiosyncrasies.
03/12/04
It's a slight story to begin with, and the movie teeters on camp with its jokey filler material.
03/12/04
Top CriticIt wants to be surprising but merely grows foolish.
03/12/04
Star Johnny Depp and adapter-director David Koepp bring enough wit and peculiarity to the proceedings to make for an entertaining, and sometimes even smart, time.
03/12/04
Either a very silly Stephen King thriller or a brilliant parody of same.
03/12/04
A suspense thriller that is neither suspenseful nor thrilling.
03/12/04
What makes Secret Window both scary and amusing is Depp.
03/12/04
Depp runs wild with eccentric behaviour. Yet, with his technical proficiency equal to his eccentric decision-making, Depp makes every choice seem appropriate or even absolutely essential to the character.
03/12/04
To watch Johnny Depp act in anything is always a treat. But does it have to be the only treat going?
03/12/04
[Depp's] amusingly idiosyncratic, yet surprisingly complex, performance goes a long way toward redeeming this otherwise sketchy film.
03/12/04
Generates the kind of low-wattage creepiness that helps compensate for its lack of resonance.
03/12/04
Top CriticNot even Depp can quite save the relentless obviousness and preposterous turns.
03/12/04
Somewhere in the middle of [King's] range storywise, and toward the top in Depp's performance.
03/12/04
Top CriticA second helping would be hard to justify were it not for Depp, whose manic idea of comedy seems right for a Stephen King thriller.
03/12/04
Top CriticLike Lon Chaney or Buster Keaton, Depp tosses off endless bits of physical business as if they were little poems.
03/12/04
You can thank Johnny Depp and Johnny Depp alone for any enjoyment you get out of this film.
03/12/04
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