Debuting on Netflix on Friday, March 18, “Windfall” is a Hitchcockian thriller starring Lily Collins, Jesse Plemons, and Jason Segel.
Here’s an idea for a movie. Throw Jason Segel, Jesse Plemons, and an inscrutable, very much Emily-no-longer-in-Paris Lily Collins together in a house, give Jason a gun, turn it into a claustrophobic robbery situation, and voila. You’ve got the basic idea behind Windfall. A new Netflix original movie hitting the streamer this weekend, and one that has a vaguely Hitchcockian vibe, to boot. Complete with a soundtrack reminiscent at times of the menace of Psycho. The house where this all takes place, by the way, is very much a fourth character in this tale. Director Charlie McDowell (who’s also Collins’ real-life husband) says in the press materials from Netflix that accompany the film that he actually sort of reverse-engineered the Windfall story to fit a shoot that takes place basically entirely in and around a gorgeous house he found in Ojai, California.
