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.
I read some of the reviews here, and came with very low expectations to this movie, and WOW, what a pleasant surprise! Blunt gives here the show of her life, way above the level of acting in "edge of tomorrow". The story itself takes time to build but it all adds to the atmosphere, and finally you get a fair amounts of twists and turns. Bennett and Ferguson also acting very well, which all adds (to my opinion) to a great film. And to all the men that say it's a "men hating" film, I say that you really have a low self-confidence to come up with such a statement... I would risk to say it's one of my 2016 best films, and I will be surprised if Blunt will not be an Oscar nominee for this film.