Amy Adams plays an agoraphobic woman grappling with reality who thinks her neighbor has been murdered in the trailer for The Woman In The Window. The six-time Academy Award-nominated actress leads a star-filled ensemble that includes Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Bryan Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh and two Captain Americas in the form of Anthony Mackie and Wyatt Russell. The Woman In The Window was shot back in 2018, and then underwent extensive reshoots to fix the confusing plot. It was then scheduled for a 2020 release, but got delayed once again due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The troubled movie was also a victim of Disney's acquisition of Fox. Produced under the Fox 2000 banner, it was left in limbo after the Disney takeover, thanks to its adult material, and was eventually acquired by the streaming service for release. Netflix finally announced a final release date of May 14 back in March, along with a teaser video that played up the Hitchcockian aspects of the film. Now, with the release just over a month away, a full trailer has been released.
Netflix's full The Woman in the Window trailer teases a psychological thriller full of twists and turns. The trailer established Adams' agoraphobic lead character, who befriends her new neighbor, played by Julianne Moore. Then one night she seems to witness the neighbors death through the window of her apartment. Then things get weird, as it seems as though she's made it all up in her head, with the neighbor being a completely different woman (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and everyone else convinced it was all a hallucination. But clearly nothing is as it seems, and the trailer teases a number of twists in the tale. You can watch the full trailer below:
Adams' role here seems tailor-made for her dramatic style, even if her performance seems a little overwrought. But that's not surprising given The Woman in the Window is directed by Joe Wright, known for his very dramatic British period pieces like Atonement and The Darkest Hour. His star from the latter film, Oldman, also seems to have turned it up to 11 in his role here, as the husband of the neighbor, complete with an inexplicably bright blonde wig. But despite concerns about the movie's overwrought tone, The Woman in the Window looks like an arresting psychological thriller inspired by the films of Alfred Hitchcock and others.
Whether it is comparable with some of Hitchcock's classics remains to be seen, but there is a strong enough cast, and in Wright an assured and experienced enough director, that there is hope for the movie. So long as the rewrites cleared up the narrative confusion experienced by test audiences, The Woman In The Window looks interesting enough to spend two hours watching on Netflix this summer.
Source: Netflix
