The Woman In The Window 2021

 

Another Amy Adams miss. Put it in a box with Hillbilly Elegy tie it up with ribbon and throw it in the deep blue sea. Taking the title of a great Fritz Lang Noir film and leading us on to think we might be in for a good thriller chiller female jep movie. Instead it crashes and burns even with a really good cast including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julianne Moore and a nasty Gary Oldman (is there any other kind of Oldman?) Adams plays a troubled woman a child psychologist no less who suffers from a large dose of agoraphobia which renders her unable to leave her house. That house. Huge and spooky of course, a brownstone in Harlem where she rattles around watching tell tale movies like Laura, Dark Passage and above all Rear Window. Her window is in the front and one night she witnesses a horrible murder, but of course no one believes her. Some of the stuff here is bloody and nasty but ultimately it just crashes and burns. The Screenplay is by the overrated playwright and sometime actor Tracy Letts who is in this one also as her personal shrink who comes to her house to offer his services. See it if you must.