Editing Secret Window (section)

==Reception==
[[Roger Ebert]] awarded ''Secret Window'' three stars out of a possible four, stating that it "could add up to a straight-faced thriller about things that go boo in the night, but Johnny Depp and director David Koepp ... have too much style to let that happen." He continues by noting that the "story is more entertaining as it rolls along than it is when it gets to the finish line. But at least King uses his imagination right up to the end, and spares us the obligatory violent showdown that a lesser storyteller would have settled for."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/secret-window-2004|title=Secret Window movie review & film summary (2004)|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|date=March 12, 2004|website=[[RogerEbert.com]]|access-date=October 5, 2019}}</ref> Ian Nathan from [[Empire (magazine)|''Empire'']] only awarded the film 2 stars out of a possible 5, stating that "The presence of the sublime Depp will be enough to get ''Secret Window'' noticed, but even his latest set of rattling eccentricities is not enough to energise this deadbeat parlour trick."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/secret-window-review/|title=Secret Window Review|author=Nathan|first=Ian|website=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire Online]]|date=January 2000 |publisher=[[Bauer Media Group|Bauer]]|access-date=October 5, 2019}}</ref>

On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], ''Secret Window'' has an approval rating of 46% based on 160 reviews, with an average rating of 5.50/10. The site's critics' consensus reads: "Depp is quirkily entertaining, but the movie runs out of steam by the end."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/secret_window|title=Secret Window (2004)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media]]|access-date=March 11, 2025}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has an aggregated score of 46 out of 100 based on 34 critics, indicating "Mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/secret-window|title=Secret Window Reviews|website=[[Metacritic]]|publisher=[[CBS Interactive]]|access-date=October 5, 2019}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.<ref name="CinemaScore">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cinemascore.com/ |title=CinemaScore |publisher=[[CinemaScore]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809062201/http://cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date=August 9, 2019 |access-date=December 2, 2020}}{{cbignore}} Each film's score can be accessed from the website's search bar.</ref>

The film was a modest box office success, succeeding at recouping its budget of $40 million with a worldwide gross of $92.9 million.

An alternate ending was included on the home media release, explicitly showing both Ted's and Amy's dead bodies underneath the corn patch in Mort's garden. In the theatrical release, this is implied, but the bodies are not shown.