The Commuter
The Commuter is a 2018 action thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by Byron Willinger, Philip de Blasi and Ryan Engle. The film stars Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, Florence Pugh, and Sam Neill. It follows a man who is unwittingly recruited into a murder conspiracy after meeting a mysterious woman while on his daily train commute.
Plot
Michael MacCauley, a former NYPD officer turned insurance agent, takes the same daily train commute on the Hudson Line from Tarrytown to Grand Central Terminal. He is abruptly laid off from his job, endangering his family's financial security. Waiting to reveal his dismissal to his wife and son, he instead confides in Murphy, his ex-partner still on the police force. On the train home, Michael meets a mysterious woman, Joanna, who proposes a "hypothetical" situation: she asks him to locate "Prynne," the alias of an unknown passenger whom Joanna claims has a stolen item. Joanna tells Michael that he will find $25,000 in the bathroom and be paid a further $75,000 when his task is done. Alluding to Michael being a former cop, she departs, and he finds the $25,000.
Cast
- Adam Nagaitis
- Andy Nyman
- Clara Lago
- Colin McFarlane
- Damson Idris
- Dean-Charles Chapman
- Edward Bluemel
- Elizabeth McGovern
- Ella-Rae Smith
- Florence Pugh
- Jonathan Banks
- Killian Scott
- Kingsley Ben-Adir
- Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Letitia Wright
- Liam Neeson
- Nakay Kpaka
- Pat Kiernan
- Patrick Wilson
- Roland Møller
- Sam Neill
- Shazad Latif
- Vera Farmiga
- Zaak Conway
More details
| author | Byron Willinger Philip de Blasi Ryan Engle |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Jaume Collet-Serra |
| editor | Nicolas de Toth |
| genre | action mystery thriller |
| keywords | chicago dismissal exonerate fbi fbi agent gps grand central terminal hard drive hidden camera hudson line insurance agent kill lay off layoff move murder mysterious woman nypd police force police officer rogue cop set up tarrytown tarrytown station thermal vision thermography under investigation wait warn wedding ring witness protection write |
| musicBy | Roque Baños |
| producer | Alex Heineman Andrew Rona |
| publisher | Lionsgate StudioCanal |
| recordedAt | London New York City Pinewood Studios |
| theme | mystery thriller |