Movie #2163 ........................."the Woman in the Window" (netflix)

 Movie #2163 "The Woman in the Window" (netflix)  I had read the book so I knew basically what was going to happen, but there were still some surprises to me.  I don't like horror films, but a good mystery is my cup of tea, and I liked this one a lot.  Yes, it's a bit bloody (at the very end), but up until that, a real easy watch --- and much like "Rear Window" with the set up --- in fact, there's a picture of Jimmy Stewart in her room (and she likes to watch TCM classics) all in homage to film noir, and esp. that film.  This is a great cast, with Amy Adams leading the way --- she is on screen the whole time and it demands skills from A to Z.  Her agoraphobia and the set up of all her drinking and pill popping isn't as well set up as in the book, just because we can be in her mind in the book most of the time, so it works better to make us doubt a lot more what she sees isn't always what we would be seeing --- in film, we are seeing what she is seeing, so there is less doubt --- does that make sense?  With the unreliable narrator in the book, you can get away with confusing the reader more easily, and that was missing here.  And I remember the cat plays even a bigger part, esp. her hurt leg, than she does in the film.  

"THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW"    1 hr and 40 mins    2021    R-rated

An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors, only to witness a disturbing act of violence.

Director:

 Joe Wright

Writers:

 Tracy Letts (screenplay by), A.J. Finn (based upon the novel by) 

Stars:

 Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie