Secret Window

Released: 2004
Horror, Mystery
Director: David Koepp
Starring: Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro
Running Time: 96 minutes
Rated: PG-13

The breakdown:
Based on a novella written by Stephen King, this is the adaptation of a story about a writer who is plagued by a strange man who says he originally wrote the story that the main character took credit for.

Johnny Depp plays a famous writer who is in the middle of a divorce and living alone in the country side of an East coast town.  Woken from his sleep one morning, a strange man, played by John Turturro, shows up on his doorstep and says he wrote a story that is exactly the same as Depp, only Depp doesn't know what he's talking about and shrugs it off.
The man repeatedly comes around or leaves violent messages for Depp to take him seriousily.  He kills his dog and threatens Depp by burning down the house he used to share with his soon to be ex-wife.  The house she still lived in.
Depp finally takes him seriousily, reads the story the man left with him and compares it to his story titled,"Secret Window" and it's an exact match, except for the ending.  That's what this strange man wants, for Depp to fix the story by rewriting the ending to the strangers ending and publishing it.
There's something definitely wrong with the stranger but it's not what you think.

I read the story first so I knew what to expect, but the movie version was certainly a lot goofier than it should've been.

I can only give the movie a 2 and 1/2 out of 5 for taking a good story and making it into a goofy film.