Brain blocking memories, she tries to piece together the events of the night before. A blur of booze later, she wakes up the next day, hungover and foggy, covered in bruises, to discover Megan has gone missing. One afternoon as Rachel looks out the train window at the Hipwells she is enraged by what she sees. “She's everything I want to be,” says Rachel of Megan. It’s the home of Megan and Scott Hipwell (Haley Bennett and Luke Evans), a good-looking couple with a seemingly perfect life to match their optimistic last name. Sitting in the third car from the front affords her the perfect view of her favourite house. To pass the time on her extended Lost Weekend, Rachel drinks vodka and rides a commuter train from the suburbs into Manhattan, even though she lost her high paying PR job ages before. Alcoholic, unemployed and despondent, she obsesses about Tom, his new girlfriend and former mistress Anna (Rebecca Ferguson), and the couple’s new baby. In the much-anticipated thriller “The Girl on the Train” she is Rachel, a woman whose life has taken a downward dive since her divorce from Tom (Justin Theroux). In recent years we’ve seen Emily Blunt warbling Stephen Sondheim’s rich “Into the Woods” score, riding a polar bear in “The Huntsman: Winter’s War” and dressed as Princess Diana in the quirky rom com “Five-Year Engagement.” She’s done big budget action, sci fi, period dramas and now she adds Hitchcockian thriller to her list of conquered genres.
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