Let’s face it, the Rear Window thing has been done to death in Hollywood, but I am always fascinated with the introduction of some new twist that heightens the suspense.
If you remember 1995’s Copycat starring Sigourney Weaver and Harry Connick, Jr. you should be familiar with the concept of agoraphobia. From the Greek for open spaces, agoraphobia is the fear of, well, shit just everything.
You want no part of the outside world or its inhabitants. So, I can imagine a person struggling with that must find it difficult to connect with others, and good luck trying to convince people that you aren’t nuts when you witness a murder.
Come to think of it, this plot line was also used in 1990’s Men at Work when a couple of garbage men witness a murder.
Anyway, as this is guaranteed to have a few twists, what do you think the big shocker will be?
Is Amy Adams actually a guy? Is she not real? Are the people all in her head, and she is actually gyrating in convulsing seizures on her living room floor?
The mind is a horrible place to be trapped, after all.
Official Synopsis
In The Woman in the Window, an agoraphobic child psychologist befriends a neighbor across the street from her New York City brownstone, only to see her own life turned upside down when the woman disappears and she suspects foul play.
A stellar ensemble cast brings Tracy Letts’ screenplay based on the gripping, best-selling novel to life, where shocking secrets are revealed, and no one—and nothing—is what it seems.
Starring Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Julianne Moore, “The Woman in the Window” is produced by Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Anthony Katagas.
