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A Girl on a Train

Will the Metro-North Hudson line in the movie adaptation of 'The Girl on the Train' do justice to the book's thrilling London commute?
Emily Blunt stars in DreamWorks Pictures' "The Girl on the Train," from director Tate Taylor and producer Marc Platt.
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Every day Rachel Watson—the divorced, alcoholic protagonist of , the best-selling 2015 novel by British author Paula Hawkins—commutes to London. Her train pauses for a few minutes at a red signal outside the house of a young couple. She calls them Jess and Jason, and projects her vision of marital bliss onto them: “They’re happy, I can tell…. They’re

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