
Lost Highway(1997)
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.


“The most important part of a story is the ending.”
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

Johnny Depp
Mort Rainey

John Turturro
John Shooter

Maria Bello
Amy Rainey

Timothy Hutton
Ted Milner

Charles S. Dutton
Ken Karsch

Len Cariou
Sheriff Dave Newsome

Joan Heney
Mrs. Garvey

John Dunn-Hill
Tom Greenleaf

Vlasta Vrana
Fire Chief Wickersham

Matt Holland
Detective Bradley
Secret Window is a mystery, thriller film released in 2004 exploring themes of adultery, jealousy, nightmare, police, isolation, alcohol. Directed by David Koepp, it stars Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello. Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.
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