‘There's shame and secrets...'

Amy Adams and Julianne Moore on how nothing is as it seems in their new psychological thriller

- STEVEN PERKINS

What would you do if you thought you’d inadvertently witnessed your neighbour committing a brutal crime – but nobody believed you? That’s the question at the heart of Netflix’s star-spangled new thriller, The Woman in the Window.

Based on AJ Finn’s bestselling 2018 novel of the same name, the film sees Hollywood star Amy Adams (The Muppets, Enchanted, American Hustle) play agoraphobic child psychologist Anna Fox, who is unable to step beyond her front door and spends a lot of time at the window of her New York townhouse, obsessively watching her neighbours come and go.

Anna becomes intrigued by the Russells, a picture-perfect family who move in across the street, and strikes up a friendship with the 15-year-old Ethan (News of the World’s Fred Hechinger) as well as the woman she believes to be his mother, Jane (Oscar-winning actor Julianne Moore).

One night, Anna hears screaming and is horrified to see Jane being stabbed. But after she calls the police, Ethan’s father, Alistair (Mank’s Gary Oldman), insists she is mistaken and tells them that Anna has never met Jane.

Anna is left reeling when Alistair introduces her to his wife (The Hateful Eight’s Jennifer Jason Leigh), who isn’t the woman she met. Is Alistair covering up a terrible crime? Or is Anna’s mind playing tricks on her?