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The Girl on the Train (2016)

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A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life.

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Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations. See more awards »

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Dr. Kamal Abdic (as Édgar Ramírez)
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Cathy
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Detective Riley
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Man in the Suit
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Martha
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Oyster Bar Woman (as Cleta E. Ellington)
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Pool Player
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Officer Pete
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Storyline

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.

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Based on the thriller that shocked the world See more »


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Rated R for violence, sexual content, language and nudity | See all certifications »

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6 October 2016 (Israel)  »

Also Known As:

Ha'na'a'ra al ha'ra'kevet  »

Box Office

Budget:

$45,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$24,536,265 (USA) (7 October 2016)

Gross:

$75,311,445 (USA) (16 December 2016)
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Trivia

This was the first film directed by Tate Taylor not to feature Octavia Spencer. See more »

Goofs

When Rachel sees the article about Megan's disappearance/murder her age is listed as 27 however, at the end her grave stone says "1990-2016" making her 25 or 26 depending whether she died before or after her birthday. See more »

Quotes

Rachel: HEY! HEY! YOU WHORE!
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Soundtracks

I Don't Get It
Written by Margo Timmins and Michael Timmins
Performed by Cowboy Junkies
Courtesy of Sony Music Canada
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
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Honestly don't see the point in this movies existence
4 November 2016 | by (Canada) – See all my reviews

Possibly the best performance by whats-her-name? Better even than in Sicario, but that isn't saying much, she's not a fabulous actress, and it was hard to say what sort of emotional effect she was going for at times. Which was sort of the point, but she is melodramatic and hard to keep watching for a whole movie.

Some points in the movie were so inconceivably slow, in an overly-obvious attempt to build drama, that I was looking at the ceiling and discovered an amazing thing with popcorn, how it behaves when you put a piece between your lips and blow at the right level of pressure, as directly 'up' as you can,.. it lands right back on your face. Yeh, it was that bad. Almost 'crying bad'.


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