Stephen King: Ranking His Films From Worst To Best

30. A Good Marriage

Following his car accident in 1999, Stephen King slowed down significantly. He also focussed more on writing his own novels than adapting his work for film, so his return to the cinematic with last year's A Good Marriage should've been a big deal. But it barely made any noise at all. Again, A Good Marriage has everything on paper. King is a pretty good screenwriter, director Peter Askin had previously been behind celebrate blacklisting documentary Trumbo, and Joan Allen and Anthony LaPaglia are pretty great casting as the married couple the film focusses on. It never quite delivers the goods, though. Allen's happily married wife of 25 years discovers her husband is a serial killer and just sort of deals with it. It could've been an interesting, unique psychological thriller, but instead it was a sort of half-baked domestic drama where none of the interesting questions and themes brought up are ever explored.