I don't know why this is so reviled - it's a perfectly entertaining, slightly bonkers, somewhat old-fashioned thriller, with a flavour set up by the early film clip references - Rear Window, Laura, Spellbound and Dark Passage.
Amy Adams is the slightly loopy agoraphobic. Opposite are Fred Hechinger (young man), Gary Oldman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Julianne Moore. Wyatt Russell is the tenant, Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta's 'Paper Boi', also If Beale Street Could Talk) the nice cop.
DP Bruno Delbonnel, editor Valerio Bonnelli, music Danny Elfman. Screenplay Tracy Letts (August: Osage County), who is also the doctor, from A.J. Finn novel.
Loved the 'flashback' with the crashed car that actually is there in the apartment - the stairs missing sides at the end...
It was apparently rewritten without Letts after previews and extra scenes added - never a good sign - or is it?
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