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24 de set. de 1990 · A man accuses author Mort Rainey of stealing one of his story ideas. Rainey, who is going through an ugly divorce, attempts to prove to his accuser that his own story was published first, but all evidence to support his argument begins to disappear, along with the people who might confirm his case.
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"Secret Window, Secret Garden" is a novella written by Stephen King that was included in his 1990 collection Four Past Midnight.
Mort Rainey is visited by a man who takes the name of John Shooter, with a manuscript which proves to be an almost exact copy of a story that Mort himself wrote and published some years earlier. John leaves Mort a copy of his manuscript.
Mort reads the manuscript and discovers the name of John's version is "Secret Window, Secret Garden" which is different from Mort's "Sowing Season." The other difference is the ending. Mort is revisited by Shooter another day. Mort discovers that he wrote his version before Shooter. Shooter demands proof, and gives Mort three days to get it. Over night, he kills Mort's cat with a screwdriver. He also burns down Amy's (his ex-wife) house. The house contained the magazine he needed for proof.
Mort orders a new copy of the magazine, he also gets a detective to help him out. He also trys to contact a man named Tom, who rode by Mort and Shooter in there last meeting. Shooter kills the detective and Tom both, and the evidence makes Mort look like the killer. He finally does get the magazine, but his story has been ripped out.
Mort returns home and realizes there is no John Shooter, it's just his imagination. He was the one who killed those people. Amy goes to Mort's home, and Mort attempts to kill her, but fails when he is shot and killed.
The story was adapted into a Secret Window in 2004.
The audiobook version of Secret Window, Secret Garden was read by James Woods, who played Dick Morrison in the Quitters, Inc. segment of the film Cat's Eye.
Secret Window is a 2004 American psychological thriller film starring Johnny Depp and John Turturro. It was written and directed by David Koepp, based on the novella Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King, featuring a musical score by Philip Glass and Geoff Zanelli. The story appeared in King's 1990 collection Four Past Midnight.
In the movie, after months it is shown that Mort grew corn in his wife's garden, where it is implied that he buried her and her lover, thus removing any proof that he murdered them. Another difference is the titles of the short stories: in the movie, Mort Rainey wrote a story called "Secret Window" and John Shooter wrote "Sowing Season".
- Stephen King
- 1990
12 de mar. de 2004 · With Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton. A successful writer in the midst of a painful divorce is stalked at his remote lake house by a would-be scribe who accuses him of plagiarism.
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- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- David Koepp
- 2004-03-12
He had never heard of John Shooter, and he had never read or written a short story called 'Secret Window, Secret Garden' in his life. He tossed the manuscript in the kitchen wastebasket on his way by, went back to the couch in the living room, lay down again, and was asleep in five minutes. He dreamed of Amy.
Two Past Midnight: "Secret Window, Secret Garden" enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger.
