Directed by Tate Taylor (The Help; Get on Up) and starring Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada; Sicario; The Huntsman: Winter's War; Salmon Fishing in the Yemen), Haley Bennett (Marley & Me; The Equalizer; Hardcore Henry), Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation; Florence Foster Jenkins), Justin Theroux (Mulholland Drive; Zoolander; American Psycho; Romy and Michele's High School Reunion) and Luke Evans (The Hobbit...; Fast and Furious 6; High-Rise; Clash of the Titans).
Psychological thriller, 112 mins, 12 +
Based on the novel by Paula Hawkins, The Girl on The Train tells a story from the perspective of three women - Rachel (Emily Blunt), Megan (Haley Bennett) and Anna (Rebecca Ferguson). Rachel takes the train to Manhattan daily and watches the house of a woman (Megan) who works as a nanny for her ex-husband Tom (Justin Theroux) and new wife Anna who live just a few houses away on the same road.
When Megan goes missing, her husband Scott (Luke Evans) is suspected, but Rachel steps in and tells him that she saw her with another man only that morning. We start to realise that Rachel's marriage fell apart due to her excessive drinking and that her paranoia and fixation are directly linked. Rachel herself blacked out that evening, so the audience is left guessing, as Rachel herself is, how she got her injuries - cuts and bruises. She is hungover and cannot remember what happened.
She sets out on a mission to determine what happened in a story of murder and intrigue that has multiple twists as the audience follows Rachel in her battle through her alcoholism to try to determine fact and reality.
Often compared to Gone Girl, the film by David Fincher based on the highly successful novel by Gillian Flynn which features a woman with mental health issues, The Girl on The Train also features a lead character who hereself is deeply flawed.
