Thematically, King is exploring how difficult it can be to throw away your life with someone. Stephen King's A Good Marriage (and yes, that's the official title) has a brilliantly horrific premise: What if someone you deeply loved and built a long, happy life with turned out to be a murderer? The whole story is about how Darcy tries to reconcile the man she married with the knowledge that he's capable of cold-blooded killing. Figuring no good will come of calling the cops, she vows to look past his violent deeds. It will ruin the upcoming wedding of their daughter, Petra ( The Cabin in the Woods' Kristen Connolly). Darcy knows that turning him in will have dire repercussions. Bob finds out that she's uncovered his secret and talks her into keeping quiet, blaming it on another aspect of his personality that he calls “Beadie.” Beadie is the killer, Bob is the loving husband, he claims.
Darcy's world gets shaken to the core after making the shocking discovery that Bob is a serial killer who's responsible for the brutal murders of numerous women. Joan Allen and Anthony LaPaglia play Darcy and Bob, a couple celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. (The last one was 1989's Pet Semetary.) It's also one of the worst movies yet to be inspired by his literary works. Stephen King's A Good Marriage, based on a story from Full Dark, No Stars, is the first feature film screenplay he has adapted from one of his own books in 25 years. Of course, when King has personally brought his own stories to the big screen, it hasn't always worked out for the best, as Maximum Overdrive and Cat's Eye can attest. The author has heartily approved some of them, including The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption, and been highly critical of others, such as Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. There have been literally dozens of movies based on the works of Stephen King.
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