The Girl on the Train steams into Nu Metro Menlyn Park (and other cinemas nationwide) from Friday, 7 October. The film features an impressive cast – including names such as Emily Blunt, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Allison Janney and Lisa Kudrow; it is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Paula Hawkins.
Reeling from a recent divorce and searching to preoccupy her days, Rachel Watson (Blunt) spends her weekday commute to and from Manhattan quietly gazing out the train windows. Every morning and evening, she relives memories from just outside the home she once shared with her now ex-husband Tom (Theroux), who now lives there with his new wife, Anna (Rebecca Ferguson), and their baby.
To distract herself from a life that’s grown so aimless, Rachel develops an obsession with the occupants of another house on the route, 15 Beckett Road—a few doors down from where she used to reside. There, blissfully unaware that a stranger is longingly watching, the seemingly perfect couple Megan (Haley Bennett) and Scott (Luke Evans) go about the business of suburban life.
One day, on her way into the city, Rachel witnesses something so shocking in Megan and Scott’s backyard that it rocks her to the core. Soon after, when Megan goes missing and is feared dead, Rachel tells the police what she believes she has seen. But can Rachel trust what she thinks she witnessed, or is she entangled in the crime itself? When one voyeur crosses the dangerous line between concerned and obsessed, she will either find the real killer…or discover that there is innocent blood on her own hands.
This brilliant and very striking suspense thriller skilfully crafts a web of intrigue, which is bound to leave audiences speechless – almost reminiscent of the effect that the acclaimed Gone Girl had (even though The Girl on the Train is very much unique in its own right). It is a quality piece of cinema, built with intense doses of scandal, psychological drama, voyeuristic mystery and suspense – tailor-made for Hitchcock fans looking for a cutting-edge, 21st century take on the thriller genre he pioneered.
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