Before long, she's in contact with a cop (Henry) who's unsure what to make of her worries. Eventually, she also meets the family patriarch (Oldman). well, you know - and she becomes concerned. But then she witnesses something from her window - she is, after all, the woman in the. She has everything delivered, and she has the help of a scruffy downstairs tenant (a charming but opaque Wyatt Russell, of Lodge 49 and more recently The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), who does his best to navigate her anxieties.Īnna becomes interested in the new neighbors across the street, and when she meets the teenage son (Fred Hechinger) and the mother (Moore), she begins to feel an attachment.

She explains that she is agoraphobic, although it's initially unclear how long this has been the case. She lives alone, but has phone conversations with her (ex-?)husband (Mackie) about how he and their daughter are doing. Furthermore, there's something that seems perhaps timely in a film about agoraphobia coming out at the tail end of, for a lot of people, a period of rather intense isolation.Īdams plays a child psychologist named Anna Fox. The cast includes Gary Oldman, Brian Tyree Henry, Julianne Moore, and Anthony Mackie. Directed by Joe Wright ( Atonement, Hanna, Darkest Hour) and starring Amy Adams, it works from a screenplay by playwright Tracy Letts. What's odd is that in a lot of ways, the film, coming to Netflix on May 14, has a solid pedigree. Meanwhile, the writer of the novel on which the film is based was the subject of an explosive article in The New Yorker accusing him of a variety of deceptions, and producer Scott Rudin was confronted with allegations as well, particularly about his treatment of assistants. Filmed in 2018 (!), it was scheduled to come out in 2019 (!!), but it was pushed to 2020 for reshoots (!!!) and then to 2021 because of the pandemic (!!!!). snakebit, let's just get that out of the way first. The Woman In The Window has been a little. Amy Adams stars as Anna Fox in the Netflix film The Woman In The Window.

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