In the book, Ethan himself reveals his backstory to Anna: The Jane she met is actually his biological mother, Katherine, and Alistar and Jane Russell are his adopted parents. How that twist is revealed and the reason for his murderous streak, however, varies from page to screen. We need to talk about Ethan: The big twist remains the same from the book to the movie: Ethan is the killer. In the movie, the email address is the more mysterious It is, of course, also Ethan (Fred Hechinger). In the book, the sender is listed as Jane Russell, though it's ultimately revealed to be from Ethan.
In both the book and the movie, Anna receives an email with a photo of herself sleeping. In the movie, Anna mostly uses her computer to Duolingo and Facebook research. Turns out, it was Ethan catfishing her to reveal her deepest secrets. First, as a frequent visitor to an online forum for agoraphobes called Agora, where over the course of the book, she finds herself connecting with another user and sharing her own tragic past.
(The movie includes the fatal crash but leaves the connection to her agoraphobia somewhat more ambiguous.)īe careful what you read on the internet: Anna gets catfished by the teenager next door not once but twice in the book. And so, Anna is now unable to go outside. It was two days before they were found, and neither her husband nor daughter survived. The book also has a more thorough explanation for Anna's agoraphobia: She was in a car crash that left her husband (played onscreen by Anthony Mackie) and young daughter helpless in the snow. In the book, Anna is able to overcome her affliction with a bit more ease and leave the house to investigate Jane. That's also when she first meets Moore's Jane Russell.
We're focusing on the bigger changes from text to screen, though, broken down below.Īnna the agoraphobe: Anna's agoraphobia is ratcheted up for the movie, so that the first time she even opens the door a crack, she has a panic attack and collapses. Though it stays true to the source material, The Woman in the Window is adapted with minor changes throughout.
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