After so much time spent indoors by so many, is a claustrophobic thriller like The Woman In The Window exactly what we all want to watch right now? Netflix is hoping we still do, and a new trailer for the movie is online.
Amy Adams plays Anna Fox, an agoraphobic child psychologist who lives alone in a New York suburb. She’s stuck in the brownstone and her fear of leaving home cost her a separation from her husband and daughter. Fox fills her day watching film noir classics and her interaction is mostly online. She spies on her neighbours like they do in the movies she loves. Things get interesting for her when the Russell clan moves in next door and she observes the bond between parents and their teen son that make her long for a reunion with her own family. It takes a turn when she witnesses an act of violence in the house, but when she calls the cops, things get even more complicated. There's a Rear Window vibe here, crossed with The Girl On The Train.
The Joe Wright film hasn't been able to catch much of a break on its troubled journey to screens – shot originally for 20th Century Fox, it was caught up in the Disney takeover and then shoved to Netflix. Wright's original version didn't set test screening audiences' hearts aflame, and it has seen some rewrites from Tony Gilroy ahead of re-shoots. Even now, with a guaranteed slot on Netflix's schedule, the presence of producer Scott Rudin, whose behavior has now come into question, is another hurdle.
Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Tracy Letts (who also wrote the original drafts of the script), Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anthony Mackie and Wyatt Russell fill out the cast, and the film lands on Netflix on 14 May.