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The Woman in the Window is a 2021 American psychological thriller film directed by Joe Wright from a screenplay by Tracy Letts, based on the 2018 novel of the same name by pseudonymous author A. J. Finn. The film follows an agoraphobic woman (Amy Adams) who begins to spy on her new neighbors (Gary Oldman, Fred Hechinger, and Julianne Moore) and is witness to a crime in their apartment. Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, and Jennifer Jason Leigh also star.
Produced by Fox 2000 Pictures, the film was originally scheduled to be theatrically released by 20th Century Studios in October 2019, but was delayed to May 2020, due to re-editing after poor test screenings. The theatrical release was later canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its rights were sold to Netflix, which released the film on May 14, 2021. Upon release, the film received "scathing" reviews from critics, with most criticism aimed at Wright's direction and the screenplay, but earned praise for the cast.
A number of landscape paintings from the Hudson River School feature prominently throughout the movie.
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PLOT SUMMARY :
Child psychologist Anna Fox lives alone in a Manhattan brownstone apartment after becoming separated from her husband Edward; he lives away with their daughter Olivia, but she talks to them on a daily basis. Anna suffers from agoraphobia and her housebound state leads her to observe all of her neighbors from a second-story window, including the Russell family who recently moved in across the street. She also takes a large number of medications and drinks alcohol daily.
One evening, Jane Russell visits Anna and they befriend one another. She also meets Ethan, Jane's teenage son, who admits his father Alistair is abusive. One night, Anna witnesses Jane being stabbed to death in the living room. She contacts the police but they do not believe her, claiming everyone in the family is fine. Alistair arrives along with "Jane" who, to the shock of Anna, is a different woman to the one she met. She begins spying on the Russell family.
Anna's tenant David lives in her basement, and claims he did not hear or see anything, though she learns David was once in prison and broke his parole conditions. She receives an anonymous e-mail with a photo of her sleeping. She contacts the detectives again, who are joined by the Russells and David, and has a nervous breakdown. It is revealed that Edward and Olivia are dead as a result of a car crash that Anna accidentally caused; she is now agoraphobic as a result and her medication causes her to have hallucinations and conversations with people who are not real
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