The Woman In The Window (2021)

It had a female scriptwriter. That's all you need to know about this silly attempt at thriller and mystery.

It seems extremely derivative to me.

Julianne looks great. Hard to believe that she and Madonna are the same age.

The novel is pretty meh.

Yes, it's a pageturner but a weak one, it's not as bad as The girl in the train but pretty close.

The success of Gone girl made appear a lot of pretty bad domestic noir bestsellers and this is one of the most prominents.

In fact the author who seems to be a pathological liar is way more interesting than the book

I was watching it, expecting a lot of Hitchcock references but then it dawned on me, it's basically a boring version of Copy Cat.

The story of Dan Mallory is far more interesting than that mediocre frau-oriented garbage.

This was fucking hilarious. WTF was that animated splattering blood on the screen during Julianne Moore's murder scene. Amy Adams getting stabbed in the face with a gardening fork lmao. Everyone is terrible in this, or completely wasted.

That was Tracey Letts not Tracy Flick, numnuts at r1. But it IS terrible, even though Julianne Moore, seriously, looks amazing.

I borrowed the book last year from the library and forgot to read it. If I had read it, I probably wouldn't have wasted my time watching this garbage film. It was so much worse than I had anticipated.

Disney must have been so happy they could dump this shit onto Netflix. I cannot BELIEVE this was planned to have a theatrical release.

Ugh, so depressing and violent. Disney?!?

Is it a remake of the Joan Bennett film?

The scariest thing about this film?

It's a production that boasts two Academy Award Best Actor winners, 1 five time nominee, a director whose film won Best Picture at the BAFTAS and a screenwriter whose play won both the Tony and the Pulitzer. As well as being produced by a guy who has 1 Academy Award for Best Picture, 17 Tony Awards and 14 Drama Desk awards.

And NOTHING can save it.

It's the biggest flaming pile of dumpster fire garbage you've ever seen. Seriously.

Film is dead.

What I find weird is that it uses the actual building at that address for the exterior shots, is this a new thing, selling the screen rights for your actual address? It abuts a church, so I thought it might belong to them and I could maybe see them doing that to get money to support what has got to be a struggling Harlem church, but no, it seems to be an apartment building. The good thing is it’s such a bomb, not many people are going to seek it out and be bothering the residents, but it’s all very strange, especially in a story about a homicidal murderer.

R12 But nothing matters if the screen play is bad.

And yes, the novel is a page turner but not everything that works on a book has a good translation into film, and the plot holes are pretty obvious

Has anyone here fucked the author of the book? He sounds totally psycho, but looked very attractive and sexy.

Amy Adams is having a bad couple of months. First HillyBilly Elegy and now this. She'll bounce back, but it's a big change from a couple of years ago when I thought she'd peaked only for Nocturnal Animals and Arrival to be released. Slightly off topic, but did anybody else wish NA had just been Adams and the art world she inhabits as opposed to having to share the film with the dramatization of the novel written by Jake Gyllenhaal's character?

What was the dollhouse all about, I lost the symbolism about that unless it was just a call back to Sharper Objects? And was anyone else disturbed by the depth of the puddles on the roof of her brownstone, I mean it was deep enough for her to drown in, and if the skylight was that decrepit the seal on that roof is bound to be very poor with major leakage. And was it mentioned the tenant maintains the roof garden, because she surely wasn’t going out there to keep it up. And I don’t get the need for those three pronged garden tools for a bucket and raised bed roof garden, that seemed just thrown in purely for dramatic effect, though it looks like she had a really good plastic surgeon, they must have taken her to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.

R15 Well, he said he is gay, but he lied on so many thing that who knows

I wished I had seen this thread before I watched last night.

It started fine but the whole “I’ll tell you everything that explains the plot in 5 seconds” moment at the end made the whole thing immediately nosedive.

Shit, but it had promise.

R13, they actually reveal the exact address in the movie so it makes sense to use the real house. Also, I have a friend who lives on that very block—and yes it’s the real house

[quote]It had a female scriptwriter. That's all you need to know about this silly attempt at thriller and mystery.

Damn, shame you weren't there to stop Agatha Christie, master of the genre, in her tracks.

[quote]Slightly off topic, but did anybody else wish NA had just been Adams and the art world she inhabits as opposed to having to share the film with the dramatization of the novel written by Jake Gyllenhaal's character?

No, it would be way too Ryan Murphy.

THE SCREENPLAY WAS WRITTEN BY A MAN.

R23 The novel was written by a man too, it doesn't matter, the story is simply not good. Yes, it's entertainning and keep you reading but in the end is not satisfying.

Domestic noir is tricky, even Gone girl which must be one of the best of the genre, cheats a lot on the reader and that's difficult to addapt.

So even when The girl in the train or The woman in the window were very successful novels the adaptations fell flat. You need some more substance to make a good film

Watched it, hated it. Don't waste your time on this.

Do none of you get the connection to the Hitchcock movie Rear Window??

R26 That doesn't make the film less awful.

[quote]It had a female scriptwriter. That's all you need to know about this silly attempt at thriller and mystery.

Because it can’t be said enough r1

I'm just here to savor misogynist R1's acute humiliation. Tracy Letts is quite famous, how ignorant could you be?

The film was quite entertaining though certainly not art. I usually find Adams a major snooze but her energy sort of worked here. I still wish casting directors would stop putting her in everything though. The psycho kids overly long speech at the end cracked me up.

R17, not only did the deep roof puddles, garden, and 3-pronged hand rake bug me, but also the staircases. Throughout the whole movie the staircases abutted a wall and had one side railing.

Then at the end Amy descends two staircases but the walls aren’t there! There is just one side railing and the other side has no barrier. Were we supposed to think we were looking into a dollhouse? But since the dollhouse played no prior role, what was the point?

Also, she didn’t zip up the cat carrier.

I'm just happy that Punch survived. I always dread seeing a pet in a thriller movie. I was pleased to see the little guy make it.

[quote]That was Tracey Letts not Tracy Flick, numnuts at [R1].

Not if he's trans. Or a bought and paid for sjw shill.

[quote]I'm just here to savor misogynist [R1]'s acute humiliation. Tracy Letts is quite famous, how ignorant could you be?

Again. Ain't not man in that dude just because he (presumably) has a dick and a couple of balls.

[quote]r21 Damn, shame you weren't there to stop Agatha Christie, master of the genre, in her tracks.

What movie scripts did Agatha Christie write?

My husband and I tried to watch it on Friday. It was so boring and messy that we had to shut it off after about twenty minutes.

What a disappointment. I’ve been waiting a while to see this. So boring. Netflix has been getting the crappy movies lately.

Of course that ridiculously contrived cat picture became a crucial plot point.

Just finished watching it and there were a lot of things I liked about it. Adams was great(as was Julianne Moore), I loved the house and production design and the director did a excellent job. But overall I felt that the film was very uneven; you're waiting for the rest of the story to develop and all of a sudden the killer is revealed and the film is over. Plus Jennifer Jason Leigh was underused and Oldman did very little for me.

Derivative is an understatement. Yes, Rear Window. Yes, Copycat. The whole thing looks like it was done in the 80's. And I'm really pissed off at the trajectory of Anthony Mackie's character. He is so damned hot they need to do better.

Yeah, nothing memorable. I liked the interior of the house, the art direction. So it's kind of a women's slash and splatter film.... lots of blood, but interesting interior wall color choices.

I'm wary when a set is too "atmospheric." It overcompensates for other obvious shortcomings with plot, writing direction, pacing, etc. This was entirely old school bullshit.

The movie sucked, but it made me miss trashy 80s/90s thrillers.

I would kill for an actual NYC brownstone that wide, some of those rooms looked like half a football field wide.

I just rewatched Nocturnal Animals. Amy Adams was gorgeous in that movie and looked stunning. Amy - I think you are better than all the run down frau emotional porn you've been in. I actually enjoyed Sharp Objects, you looked like hell, but it was a good performance and your supporting cast was even better. Then we have Hillbilly Elegy where again you looked horrible, but this time it was a snooze fest. Now, we have this, The Woman in the Window, where YET AGAIN, you play another crazy, overweight, given up on life emotionally unable woman. I took a nap 25 minutes into it and then aborted. Maybe this is your niche, like Reese Witherspoon's 50 Shades of Tracy Flick. I hope not. I want to see you hot again in a movie. Be a brave actress and ditch the ugly.

These Girl/Women movies don't work because few women can do crazy, icy bitch like Rosamund Pike. If you see Rosamund Pike with a blond bob in a movie, somebody is going to get fucked up.

I was excited bcuz it starred Amy Adams, Anthony Mackie (about 2 minutes of screen time), Jennifer Jason Leigh and Julianne Moore, but was disappointed. This attempted thriller was awful. So many unbelievable things happen. You'll get to the end and be like "Meh..." Don't waste your time.

Really the only one who got any screen time besides Amy was the cat. I’m surprised he didn’t run to the roof and the kid fell over him into the skylight.

What the fuck was Julianne Moore going blond for?

It ages her by 10 years.

Hold on, the wife was Jennifer Jason Leigh? Wtf! I wouldn’t have recognized her in a million years. Did she do something to her face?

Casting JJL must have just been done as stunt casting and a riff on Single White Female. I take it if you look hard enough, if anyone could care as much, there are inside jokes everywhere in this sloppy mess. It the only justification for the doll house and the multiple “sharper objects.”

I don't want to watch this but can someone please spoil this for me: I'm interested to know what the twist is. Thank you.

This movie was doomed from the start. The writer is a sociopathic faggot.

r48 I guess there could be only one redhead, and Amy was the lead.

What a nothing, thankless role for JJL.

Oldman chewed up ALL the scenery.

That kid was so creepy from the beginning that it wasn't a shock at the end.

Goldie and Kurt's son looked pretty hot in this.

The one thing I noticed about Oldman is that his old-man Dracula make up really prophesied how he’d look as an old man.

The plight of small business owners. All they do is whine about everything. They feel entitled to not pay their employees a living wage. Well, If you can’t afford it maybe you don’t deserve to be in business.

Oops wrong thread. Carry on! 🤣

Julianne Moore is in only one scene then gets stabbed to death. So how bad can this really be?

Damn. Add Jennifer Jason Leigh to the list of actors who have fucked up their face with plastic surgery. Helen Hunt is another one.

Goldie & Kurt's son?????

Wyatt Russell, R60

I love Wyatt!

Wow, I had no idea Wyatt was their kid.

How do Kate and Oliver feel about this erstwhile Wyatt sliding into the family profession and possible taking roles away from them? Do they wish they would have smothered him in his bassinet?

I chose to watch this version and it sounds like I made a good decision.

The first 10 minutes of this movie were confusing as hell and I almost turned it off, but things perked up, but so many weird choices were made here. The mentioned random blood splatter on the screen which looked like some bizarre film school transition and the killer's insanely long monologue at the end which just sounded like gibberish and didn't explain anything made me not love it as much as I should have.

I wish Brian De Palma were still making thrillers like this. He'd have known what to do with it.

Gone Girl - A-plus

Girl on a Train - C

I Care A Lot - C-minus (Though if it had been an 80s movie, I'd give it a B-plus on the awful-'80s-thrillers curve.)

Woman in the Window - I'm not going to bother

Gone Girl sucked and was way too long.

R68 To be fair that novel is difficult to adapt (way more than this one)

I watched Gone Girl for the first time just last week and I too thought it sucked. When she did in Doogie Howser, I was out.

I love Gone Girl. It's an excellent pulpy thriller. Sometimes you just want something twisty and gratuitous like it or Wild Things.

[quote]What the fuck was Julianne Moore going blond for? It ages her by 10 years.

"Because the only redhead in an Amy Adams picture is Amy Adams! And that's me, baby, remember?"

I loved Girl on the Train. The cast was stellar. How can you deny Luke Evans and Edgar Ramirez in the same movie! Allison Janney, Emily Blount.

All I kept thinking was, Amy could play Janis Joplin.

Gone Girl- The film and the book, ruled. The only false note was the horrible Doogie Hauser.

That book was the meaning of a page turner.

I loved I Care Alot.

Girl on the Train was okay.

This film was absolutely horrible.

I felt like Gone Girl was too long. And honestly... Ben Affleck. I feel like I ought to like him, but I just don't. I want to, but I find him very annoying. And he cannot act to save his life. He's a very decent director, but a terrible actor. I thought the book was better than the movie. I will say I did find Affleck believable in a dishonest role. Love Rosamund Pike. but I could not get into the damned movie. Haven't seen "I Care A Lot."

Wow, the actor playing Ethan, Fred Heckinger, had a big weekend, he’s also in a chapter of the Underground Railroad playing another dark and corrupt character. He looks to have an impressive range.

I watched this cold last night only knowing Amy Adams was in it. When Julianne Moore turned up I was like OMG Seriously! and then Jennifer Jason Leigh who at first I thought was Mare Winningham. How did Anthony Mackie gets third billing on the poster?

But what a load of fucking shite. The big reveal at the end was hilarious. AND THAT'S HOW I MURDERED THESE PEOPLE AND THIS IS WHAT MY PLAN IS FOR YOU BECAUSE I AM AN EVIL PSYCHOPATH HA HA HA HA HA.

Blah.

Agree r78 I literally laughed aloud at points in this “suspense” movie. Amy Adams looked like utter shit - she needs a new agent. I can’t quite believe how bad this was. It’s a mashup of plot points and setting from movies Copycat and Rear Window with a liberal dash of Girl on The Train.

Much more intriguing is the story behind the story; thanks to r6 for linking. A long read on the very dodgy author who is likely a Datalounger; it’s like he took the Let’s Be The Talented Mr Ripley thread as a template for life.

R63 I knew going into viewing the film that Wyatt Russell was in it and boy can one see Kurt Russell's eyes in him. Rather thankless role for him (and everybody else to be hones) though.

Cn you tell what neighborhood or street she's on?

R81 Just like she says in the movie, West 121 Street, NYC, see my above post where they used the literal house for 101 on that street in Harlem, you can see it in the Google Maos street view.

From R79 article: "Mallory has said that his second novel is likely to appear in early 2020—coinciding, he hopes, with the Oscar ceremony at which the film of “The Woman in the Window” will be honored."

Did anyone read the book? Is it that good? Could it have been done justice as a film?

From Goodreads:

[quote] I'm surprised that I actually finished this novel because my patience was gone, girl.

[quote] ...All this is great. Absorbing. But, you know those people that use too many words and make simple matters overly boring? AJ Finn is one of those kind of writers. My patience runs thin with passages like this: "Frigid air seizes my body, so raw that my heart feels faint; storms my clothes, sets them trembling around me. My ears brim with the sound of wind. I'm filling up with cold, running over with cold." Ugggghhhhh. I think she's cold. The book is so long and repetitive. It has an interesting, yet heavily borrowed upon plot and there are a couple of major twists. The plot twists are predictable, you will see them from a mile away, but it is still fun to see if your hunches were right (they will be).

[quote] I did want to enjoy it, I really did! But I felt tired & disappointed by the story and by Anna Fox. She suffered a great loss and she had my sympathy there, however, I didn't connect to her. The story tself dragged on and on, and I actually could put this book down. In fact, I had to return it to the library, and I didn't miss it, which told me a lot about how I felt about it. I didn't miss it at all.

The book is not good. It reads like an outline for a movie. Unlike more successful such books (Gone Girl) it doesn’t give you any characters to care about and the atmospherics feel pasted on (and thus not atmospheric).

Oh how I wish I had found this thread before watching this turd last night.

If you want to watch good, trippy movies with Julianne Moore or Amy Adams, check out Maps to the Stars or Nocturnal Animals. This movie is pure bullshit...the stars deserve so much better.

Who knew the Women In The Windows, Amy Adams and Julianne Moore, were waving through at Evan Hansen?

Toothy Tile is playing the sociopath pretender author in an upcoming series.

Oscar campaign for Amy Adams has already begun...based on this performance...I am not joking.

They can campaign all they want

R90, it's likely in her contract actually

Oddly enough, I had just watched a YA film called Fear of Rain about a girl with schizophrenia the night before and both films share similar plot twists. The YA film was much better oddly enough.

R93 Was the YA book one of the properties he worked on while in publishing?

R94 Fear of Rain is an original story as far as I know. It's odd they would be released around the same time.

I lasted 15 or 20 minutes and gave up. What a mess.

I watched the whole thing, all the while searching for the plot. I just couldn't believe that with Julianne, Amy, and Gary Oldman, there wasn't something great coming up. Right up to the credits rolling, I had hope.

I can’t believe it was written by Tracy Letts. Toward the end it was like, “Let’s just finish this shit so we can wrap and go home”

Yeah, it’s no August:Osage County that’s for sure.

The lady cop was unintentionally hilarious. Just comically dismissive and a total cunt right off the bat.

It’ll sweep awards season...

at the Razzies.

The movie would have been better with a cast of unknowns and a director who knows how to thrill.

R51 SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER the " sweet " teenage son is a psychopath who offed his biological mother played by Moore.

R51 please see R103 and please don't waste your time watching this movie! Life is too short to waste it watching anything that stupid.

There's a BBC drama being shown in the UK where the lead character keeps having flashbacks to a car journey with her husband and daughter where the car crashes and each time they show the flashback scenes I think about this dreadful, awful film and the hilarious twist where the killer reveals his motives and plans to kill again.

Joe Wright is a hack. We howled with laughter the entire way through The Woman the Window.

Unwatchable. What an unlikable main character.

The new Soderbergh movie is basically The Woman in the Window 2.

Was the novel named The Woman In The Window in homage to the Fritz Lang film?

How did the film noir allusions add to the narrative other than as a cutesy gimmick?