Secret Window (2004)

SECRET WINDOW (seen on 3-2-2009) - a Netflix movie
Director: David Koepp
Starring: Johnny Depp
Based on Stephen King's novel
This movie is a bit of puzzle in that it begs the question of a writer confronted by a strange stalker who threateningly accuses him of plagiarising a story he published years ago. The truth of the matter was that he published his story prior to the stalker's and quite obviously there is no case for plagiarism. The film narrative makes this loud and clear at the beginning. This probably is a strategy to force us to read the story as an allegory. Whatever.
Mort Rainey (played by Johnny Depp) the writer faced with a bloc is distraught when a weird stranger begins to annoy him by menacingly nagging him to the fix the ending of his story, "Secret Window", as a punishment for plagiarism. (I must see the film again to vet by vibes about it, because I missed the part that suggests what the story was about) When he goes into a denial mode, the stalker persists and even burns down the house he gave to his ex-wife with whom he is now involved in the painful process of seeking a divorce (she took another man because he, according to her, was always 'lost'). After stiff resistence from him, he is finally cowed down and cornered (isn't that what happens to a writer who sits down painfully rewrite his own published and finished writing!!) and sledgehammered into "fixing" the ending. In the process he becomes the aggressive and violent stalker himself, donns the stalker's hat, and, in his new avatar, he owns up the two murders that his psychotic stalker (played by John Torturro) committed and, quite unlike his normal soft self, kills his ex-wife as well as her lover. After this he is at peace with himself.
The films is based on a novella by horrormeister Stephen King and is directed by David Koepp.