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Directed by | Joe Wright |
Screenplay by | Tracy Letts |
Based on | The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn |
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Cinematography | Bruno Delbonnel |
Edited by | Valerio Bonelli |
Music by | Danny Elfman |
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Distributed by | Netflix[2][3] |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $40 million[4] |
The Woman in the Window is a 2021 American psychological thriller film directed by Joe Wright from a screenplay by Tracy Letts, based on the bestselling 2018 novel of the same name by author A. J. Finn. The film follows an agoraphobic woman (Amy Adams) who begins to spy on her new neighbors (Gary Oldman, Fred Hechinger, and Julianne Moore) and is witness to a crime in their apartment. Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, and Jennifer Jason Leigh also star.
The film was produced by Fox 2000 Pictures and was originally scheduled to be theatrically released by 20th Century Fox in October 2019, but was delayed to May 2020 and subsequently sold to Netflix due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] It was released on May 14, 2021, and ranked among the best performing Netflix titles of 2021.[6] Critical reception was mixed to negative, with critics praising the performances but describing the plot as convoluted and derivative.[7] The film and the source novel were among the inspirations for the 2022 Netflix dark comedy series The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, which spoofed tropes from the psychological thriller genre.[8]