Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Emily Blunt | ... | Rachel | |
Haley Bennett | ... | Megan | |
Rebecca Ferguson | ... | Anna | |
Justin Theroux | ... | Tom | |
Luke Evans | ... | Scott | |
Edgar Ramírez | ... | Dr. Kamal Abdic (as Édgar Ramírez) | |
Laura Prepon | ... | Cathy | |
Allison Janney | ... | Detective Riley | |
Darren Goldstein | ... | Man in the Suit | |
Lisa Kudrow | ... | Martha | |
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Cleta Elaine Ellington | ... | Oyster Bar Woman (as Cleta E. Ellington) |
Lana Young | ... | Doctor | |
Rachel Christopher | ... | Woman with Child | |
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Fernando Medina | ... | Pool Player |
Gregory Morley | ... | Officer Pete |
The Girl on the Train is the story of Rachel Watson's life post-divorce. Every day, she takes the train in to work in New York, and every day the train passes by her old house. The house she lived in with her husband, who still lives there, with his new wife and child. As she attempts to not focus on her pain, she starts watching a couple who live a few houses down -- Megan and Scott Hipwell. She creates a wonderful dream life for them in her head, about how they are a perfect happy family. And then one day, as the train passes, she sees something shocking, filling her with rage. The next day, she wakes up with a horrible hangover, various wounds and bruises, and no memory of the night before. She has only a feeling: something bad happened. Then come the TV reports: Megan Hipwell is missing. Rachel becomes invested in the case and trying to find out what happened to Megan, where she is, and what exactly she herself was up to that same night Megan went missing.
Well, I enjoyed this movie to the point I would watch it again to catch some of the nuances you miss during first viewing. The story is a bit complicated with several couples in overlapping relationships, but that makes it interesting. The actors are all good with real responses to the surprise events. Unveiling the main character's, Rachel, story in drunken snippets adds to the tension. Some other reviewers complain about plot points that don't make sense but, in some cases, it's because the reviewer did not understand the plot and the inter-relationships of the characters. Special credit to Emily Blunt and Haley Bennet for portraying the angst in their personal situations.