Finn's The Woman in the Window on Amazon (opens in new tab). If you’re looking for what to watch next, be sure to check out our list of the best movies on Netflix.Īnd you can pick up a copy of A.J. And it’s only natural in trying to recreate so many twists on the big screen that some of the details are going to be omitted. Read more Print length 448 pages Language English Publisher William Morrow Publication date Jan. Some changes to the movie were amusingly cosmetic - such as changing the book club across the street to a prayer group and the cellist neighbor to a trumpeter. Twisty and powerful, ingenious and moving, The Woman in the Window is a smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense that recalls the best of Hitchcock.

Bryan Tyree Henry was fabulous as Detective Little, and exactly as portrayed in the book, and Amy Adams was likable and sympathetic as such an isolated character. Overall, the Netflix version of The Woman in the Window stayed true to A.J. By the time it happened in the book, the reader might have guessed that Ed and Olivia didn’t survive, but giving the story room to breathe hit harder. The book offered a more intimate picture of the couple’s impending separation amid Anna’s affair, and most devastating of all was Anna’s efforts to keep her family alive in a snowstorm for days following the accident. Not only did the book feature more conversations with husband Ed and daughter Olivia, the narrative of what happened on that ill-fated Christmas vacation was detailed in chapters interspersed with present-day events. The movie used the same misdirects as the book - that she talks to them every day and that she and Ed were separated (both true) - but didn’t devote much time to the storyline. While the tragic event that led to Anna’s agoraphobia was hinted at from the beginning of the film and then revealed dramatically with Anna’s hallucination of their overturned vehicle in an adjoining room with snow falling around it, her family’s role in the book was larger, and thereby more upsetting. Anna’s Family Tragedy Is More Heartbreaking In The Book

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