The wife, Darcy ( Joan Allen), discovers the horrifying secret her husband, Bob ( Anthony LaPaglia), has been hiding from her all of those years. In A Good Marriage (in theaters and on VOD today), adapted from his own novella (included in the 2010 collection Full Dark, No Stars), King takes the creepy underpinnings of the very real BTK Killer story and applies it to a thriller about a couple celebrating over 25 years of marriage. King steps out from beyond his comfort zone to extract the essence of his story and commit it to an entirely different format: the screenplay. Stephen King knows a thing or two about “a good marriage.” He’s been married to Tabitha King for over 40 years, and if it wasn’t for her dipping into the trash can to rescue a young King’s discarded draft of his debut novel, Carrie, we may have never been blessed with the most perceptive and prolific horror writer of any generation’s classic-filled output.ĭespite his staggering bibliography, it's rare that Mr.
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